Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Wellness programs looking good as business investments
Businesses should like these numbers a lot: Invest $1, get $3 back. That’s the latest math on the return on employee wellness programs and experts are saying that may just...
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Opportunity for news stories: New federal rules mean all nonprofit hospitals must do a community health needs assessment
It’s long been the rule that nonprofit hospitals have had to provide charitable benefits to their community in order to keep their nonprofit status. That’s no small matter, given that...
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Breast cancer awareness: Testing urged, guidelines explained, misconceptions explored
Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2, the genes most commonly involved in breast cancer, have up to an 80 percent chanceof getting the disease. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Although...
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Northern Kentucky group forms in response to what some consider ‘epidemic’ of heroin use in their area
Ashel Kruetzkamp with a vial of Naloxone HCl, used to treat those who overdoseon heroin. (Photo by Patrick Reddy) Heroin use is reaching such high levels in Northern Kentucky that...
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One of Humana’s plans to get 5% more in Medicare payouts under bonus plan that rewards proof of preventive care
The Courier-Journal reports that Louisville-based Humana Inc. will get 5 percent more in Medicare payments and the highest rating for one of its health plans under a government program that...
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Obamacare is unpopular in nine swing states, but not when the law is described without that label
Party labels affect what rural voters think about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the latest National Rural Assembly and Center for Rural Strategies poll of rural...
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UK study definitively shows that meth labs proliferate in state’s counties where pseudoephedrine sales are high
A University of Kentucky research study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week shows a direct correlation between pseudoephedrine sales and methamphetamine production in Kentucky counties....
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13-year-old with national following succumbs to rare cancer
A 13-year-old McLean County boy whose fight with a rare cancer gained national attention died last night. The death of Lane Goodwin was announced to 342,000 followers on his “Prayers...
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Doctor’s rejection of the willfully obese makes exercise expert ask: Who’s responsible for your health? Who should pay for it?
Bryant Stamford, professor and chairman of the Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College in Indiana, wrote in his weekly exercise-and-health column Thursday’s edition of The Courier-Journal: “I caught...
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Board of Medical Licensure to amend pill-mill regulations to address concerns of doctors and some patients
The Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure wants to change some of the more controversial requirements for urine screenings and digital monitoring in the state’s new prescription-drug regulations under the law...