Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Tenn. study suggests rural residents have as much access to care as anyone, if they’re insured and don’t mind the drive
A health-care study in Tennessee, which started with the premise that people in rural areas have less access to care than urban dwellers, ended with a rather surprising conclusion: They...
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Kentucky doctor honored for her work in bolstering health and preventing deaths of babies born a few weeks early
A Kentucky neonatalogist was honored this week for giving the state “a role in catalyzing a national movement around healthier babies.” Ruth Ann Shepherd, M.D., division director for maternal and...
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Kentucky has the nation’s third highest rate of cardiac disease. Learn more, Sept. 29 is World Heart Day
September 29 is World Heart Day, and, according to the most recent edition of the United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, Kentucky has the third highest percentage of adults with...
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Kentucky Parent Survey: We could do a lot better on school meals, we’re very much in favor of more health education
Fewer than 10 percent of Kentucky parents report that their child has everwalked or biked to school. When asked, only about one in four Kentucky parents describe the meals served...
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Walmart, Humana to give discount on healthier grocery choices like veggies, fruit, lean meat, skim milk, certain packaged goods
Starting Oct. 15, more than 1 million members of Humana Inc.‘s Healthy Rewards program will start getting a 5 percent credit on about 1,300 healthy food items at all U.S....
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18 Kentucky hospitals cited as ‘top performers’ on accreditation board’s annual list
Eighteen Kentucky hospitals have been included on the annual list of hospitals that have excelled at adhering to basic procedures for surgery and other treatment of common illnesses such as...
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After two days with doctors at work, Herald-Leader columnist wonders about patients and future of health-care system
Tom Eblen Tom Eblen, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s local columnist and former editor, spent two days shadowing doctors last week and lived to tell about it. Part of the Lexington Medical Society’s...
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White children exposed to high levels of chemical BPA are five times more likely to be obese, study concludes
White children exposed to high levels of bisphenol A, better known as BPA, are five times more likely to be obese than children with low levels, according to a study published...
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Lexington lawyer writes booklet helping Kentucky businesses to break down health-care reform law
Margaret Levi, a lawyer with the Lexington firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, has authored a new publication, The Impact of Health Care Reform on Kentucky Employers. The 68-page booklet,...
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Life spans of the least educated are shrinking; steepest decline among white women, biggest gap among white men
Here’s some bad news for states like Kentucky, which are overwhelmingly white and have large shares of the population that did not graduate from high school: A new study “that...