Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Use of pacifiers could lead to very sick babies, study finds
Oklahoma State University researchers report that they have found a wide range of disease-causing bacteria, fungus and mold on pacifiers that young children had been using. In research presented at...
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Norton Healthcare implements a mobile application that allows doctors to monitor patients, especially expectant mothers
Norton Healthcare is the first health-care provider in Kentucky to implement a patient monitoring system that allows obstetricians to monitor expectant mothers while they’re in labor via the physician’s...
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Horses and Hope Race Day set for Nov. 18 at Churchill Downs
The Fifth Annual Horses and Hope Race Day honoring breast cancer survivors will be Sunday, Nov. 18, at Churchill Downs. Hosted by First Lady Jane Beshear and the Kentucky Cancer...
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Kentucky teens attempt suicide more often than those in all U.S.
In a 2011 update of a study done four years ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) surveyed America’s teenagers about their physical...
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In Ky. and elsewhere, elections may decide Medicaid expansion
In Texas, Brandi DeFrank’s Medicaidcoverage ended when her baby, Gabriel,was born. His coverage continued. Voters’ choices on Tuesday about who sits in statehouses may matter more in the long run...
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Harlan doctor tells White House summit about his changeover to electronic health records
Dr. Carl Smith Jr. Almost a decade ago, Dr. Carl Smith Jr. did something that many health care providers across America are still struggling to do: He implemented electronic health...
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Baptist Health buys Trover Health in Western Kentucky, making Baptist Kentucky’s largest health-care provider by licensed beds
Following the nationwide trend of large hospitals taking over smaller ones in light of health care reform demands in a slow economy, Louisville-based Baptist Health added an eighth hospital to...
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Passport Health claims state violated bidding process and will make Medicaid overpayments in Jefferson County as a result
Passport Health Plan has charged that the state of Kentucky has violated its own bidding process and will spend as much as $80 million more than necessary per year under...
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Study: Smoke-free workplace leads to fewer heart attacks
Mayo Clinic researchers have found a 33 percent drop in heart attack rates in a Minnesota county after public smoking bans were enacted. This, while rates of hypertension, diabetes, high...
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Franklin County health department lays off 5; blames Medicaid managed health claim denials for budget shortfalls
The Franklin County Health Department has laid off five employees effective today, four of those are part-time workers. The layoffs are being made in the midst of a $1.7 million...