Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Community health centers get federal grants to hire employees to help you shop for health insurance coverage
Kentucky’s online health insurance exchange, Kynect, opens Oct. 1, 2013, and most Kentuckians must have health insurance by January of next year or face tax penalties having it. To help you get...
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Tips to keep children safe from the dangers of summer heat
While enjoying time with family on the boat, at church picnics, in the backyard or at the beach, be sure to keep kids safe during the summer heat. Heat can...
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State health department asks Kentuckians to help improve the state’s health by commenting on improvement plan by Aug. 1
Yes, Kentucky ranks first in smoking and cancer deaths, 10th in obesity and poorly in other health measurements, but Kentuckians can help improve the state’s health status by giving their thoughts...
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Prescription drugs killing more women than ever; Kentucky ties for fifth for its high percentage of deaths
The ongoing national epidemic of addiction to prescription painkillers is spreading more quickly among women, and it is killing more women than ever before. Kentucky ties Utah for the fifth...
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AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine and infectious-disease specialist in Lexington and the new president of...
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Kissner, six Medicaid directors from other states picked for national institute
State Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence Kissner is one of seven state program directors to participate in the year-long Medicaid Leadership Institute, which Gov. Steve Beshear said will help Kissner’s ability to...
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Kentucky Spirit leaves the state; cabinet assigns company’s clients to other Medicaid managed-care firms
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 125,000 Medicaid patients in Kentucky have a new insurance company, with Saturday’s departure of Kentucky Spirit from the state. The state Cabinet for...
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Employers welcome delay in coverage mandate, but individual mandate remains and many uninsured people are unaware of it
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration’s decision to delay, for a year, the health-reform law’s mandate that employers of more than 50 workers offer them coverage could...
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Summer lunch programs promote healthy eating habits for students, their families and the entire community
Carol Greenwell, who runs the summer lunch program for Bardstown City Schools, hands Brennen Maddox a carton of fat-free milk after he picks up lunch. (Photo by Jennifer Corbett) Both school districts in Nelson County...
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Family physicians group objects to cuts to primary-care physician training programs; cites doctor shortage, which is worse in Ky.
Facing an already-existing shortage of primary care in the country and state, the American Academy of Family Physicians sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., chairman of the House Appropriations...