Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Free webinars and annual forum to be hosted by Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky will host several educational events in an effort to help communities improve their health. On Wednesday, Aug. 8, the foundation will host a webinar about...
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Under scrutiny and criticism, cabinet changes way it handles reviews of children who die or nearly die from abuse or neglect
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services is now using a standard form when conducting internal reviews involving children who died or nearly died from abuse or neglect. Staff are...
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Rural hospital coalition urges Congress to spare Medicare programs that shore up rural health care
A coalition of rural hospitals are lobbying Congress to keep two Medicare programs that the National Rural Health Association says are vital to keep hundreds of smaller hospitals going. The...
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Next phase of health reform: New and renewed insurance policies will have to cover birth control, other preventive care for women
Even though the decision was widely expected, as part of health care reform, the news is still what Julie Rovner of National Public Radio termed “a pretty big deal.” Earlier...
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Smoke Free Kentucky Coalition’s multi-city tour launches push for statewide smoking ban in 2013 legislature
Backers of an effort to ban smoking in all public places in Kentucky took their message on the road this week in hopes of getting legislation passed in the 2013...
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You can do this, too: Lexington church’s fresh food program reaches out to lower income neighbors with deep discount
Rick Courtney loads tomatoes into a crate bound for Fresh Stop (Herald-Leader photo by Charles Bertram) Fresh produce comes to the church-goers of Fresh Presbyterian Church of Lexington every Sunday...
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Research suggests dental therapists could provide care to Medicaid-eligible kids at terrific savings
The recent revitalization of the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition was a reminder that our state ranks 49th in dental health, behind only West Virginia. So was the news then Tuesday...
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National Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, focuses attention on need for supportive families, friends and employers
World Breastfeeding Week is Aug. 1-7, so the state Department for Public Health is pointing out the importance of providing support for breastfeeding families. “We encourage mothers to breastfeed to...
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What it’s like to lack health insurance, and how health reform is changing that: It’s a story for every county, with local data
The Kentucky Standard‘s Randy Patrick deftly shows how the federal health-care reform law is having an effect at the individual level by telling the story of Bonnie Varnell, a Nelson...
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New health law and aging baby boomers’ anticipated strain on the system is about to make chronic doctor shortage worse
Kentucky’s persistent physician shortage is hardly new. Almost a century ago, the Frontier Nursing Service came to Hyden on the presumption that doctors wouldn’t. A report from the Health Resources...