Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Kentucky’s pill-mill problem and law to fight it get national airing, with issues of patient privacy versus public health debated
Kentucky’s “pill problem” went more public Thursday when David Hopkins, head of the state’s prescription drug monitoring program, told the National Conference of State Legislatures the true extent of our prescription...
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CDC: Kentucky grossly underuses tobacco settlement money when it comes to tobacco prevention and cessation programs
Kentucky is not even remotely up to snuff on state tobacco-prevention programming. According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control, the...
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Cheaper heroin showing up in Eastern Kentucky as crackdown on pain pills makes that trade less attractive
About 60 grams of heroin, worth about$8,000. (AP photo) It was only few months ago that Northern Kentucky law enforcement officers and substance abuse clinics began expressing grave concern that...
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One S.C. county serves as incubator for state’s efforts to battle weight problems, with some good results
PE teacher Sharon Williams, right, leads morning exercises before classes start at Bells Elementary.(The State photo by Tim Dominick) With nearly two-thirds of South Carolina deemed overweight or worse, lucky...
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British researchers say a simple calculation can predict likelihood of a baby’s chance of becoming obese during childhood
If only we knew from the start which babies were predisposed to becoming diabetic and hypertensive and overweight . . . News out this week suggests we can. NBC News...
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Study: Teenagers may buy fewer cigarettes if the product is not prominently displayed
For Kentucky which has the dubious distinction of having the nation’s highest rate of teen smokers, an study published this week in Pediatrics reports that teenagers may be less likely...
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CDC director: Flu season is three weeks early, could be a bad one
Prepare for a bad flu season. According to the Centers for Disease Control, this flu season seems to be ahead of schedule if you use the last decade as any...
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Merry Christmas: Mistletoe extract being used for colorectal cancer treatment in Europe, could be a great boon for Kentucky
Kentucky has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancers in the nation, with about 50 of every 100,000 Kentuckians being diagnosed with the disease each year. The state also...
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American Lung Association calls state’s tobacco-cessation benefit inadequate now that Medicaid is under managed care
Kentucky added a robust tobacco cessation benefit to its Medicaid program, only to lose much of it in 2011 by putting the program under managed care by insurance companies, the American...
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Health coalition asks Nickelodeon to stop marketing sugary and fatty snacks to children
A coalition of health groups thinks maybe it’s time to enlist SpongeBob in the childhood obesity fight. Earlier this week, the groups asked the Nickelodeon Channel to stop airing commercials...