Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Smoking ban gets ‘a good scrubbing’ before Judiciary Committee
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The bill for a statewide smoking ban is favored by three-fifths of Kentucky adults, but is dead for this session of the General Assembly....
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Legislature sends fix of last year’s pill-mill bill to Beshear
“After more than a year of debate, a bill that would revamp Kentucky’s prescription-drug law to more strictly focus on pill abuse and ease requirements on patients is heading to...
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Kentucky’s well-being ranks next to last, just above West Virginia
Kentucky ranks next to last in the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being index, just ahead of West Virginia. The Bluegrass State ranked last in the index’s Healthy Behaviors category, which measures the...
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Health departments in N. Ky. and Franklin County are among the first 11 in the nation to be accredited, a milestone in public health
Three Kentucky departments are among the first 11 in the nation to receive accreditation from the national Public Health Accreditation Board, which announced the achievements Thursday. The Franklin County Health Department, the...
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House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky’s health care. House Bill 217 addresses some “unintended consequences” of last year’s “pill mill bill” by easing some of the bills...
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Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky’s struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As the bill for a statewide smoking ban lies on its deathbed in the General Assembly, new federal data show Kentucky still has the...
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‘Incredible Colon’ to march across the state in Colon Cancer Awareness Month; more than a dozen stops scheduled
A special tour throughout the state of the Incredible Colon — an inflatable model of a human colon, large enough for visitors to walk through it — will promote education...
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Take care with a big cold-weather killer, the space heater
Warm weather isn’t far away, but winter remains, and precautions should be taken to steer clear of a big cold-weather killer — the space heater — for the season’s remaining...
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Bill for statewide smoking ban appears to have been extinguished
The bill to enact a statewide smoking ban in Kentucky appears to be dead for this session of the General Assembly. The House sent House Bill 190 back to committee...
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House panel approves bill easing rules of 2012’s pill-mill bill
They could call it the pill they’re taking to fix the pill-mill bill. A state House committee approved a bill Tuesday that would tweak last year’s legislation aimed at cracking...