Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Who is on Medicaid already? Not all poor Kentuckians, foundation president says on op-ed distributed to Kentucky newspapers
By Susan Zepeda President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act, states have many...
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Does Obamacare tax the middle class?
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks ata Rotary Club meeting in Louisville.(C-J photo by Michael Clevenger) With Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell calling the federal health-care reform law a tax on...
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FDA approves fast, take-home test that detects HIV
A model demonstrates how to use the OraQuick test, whichdetects the presence of HIV in saliva.AP photo by Chuck Zovko. Soon, taking an HIV test will be no more complicated...
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Tensions mounting as implementation of prescription drug bill nears on July 20
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg,sponsored the prescription drug bill.(Courier-Journal photo) A controversial bill aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse, which was considered by many as the hallmark of the 2012...
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After losing weight, get the same number of calories from fat and carbs to maintain weight loss, study suggests
Subjects on a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet did not doas well when it came to keeping weight off, a studyhas found. (Photo by Tetra Images) All calories may not be equal...
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If Kentucky expands Medicaid, no other state would have a larger percentage drop in the uninsured, Kaiser Commission says
“Kentucky will benefit most from the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured,” Lorie Hailey writes...
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As Beshear and Williams equivocate, Hoover and McConnell say state should not expand Medicaid under health reform
Kentucky Health News The Republican leader of the state House said today that Kentucky should not take advantage of an expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform because it would...
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Most Ky. nursing homes give more antipsychotic drugs to non-psychotic patients than U.S. median, but get little attention so far
Most Kentucky nursing homes exceeded the national average of the share of residents without psychosis or a related condition who nevertheless received antipsychotic drugs, according to federal data gathered by...
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Kentuckians support goals of reform law, foundation head says
While politicians say President Obama’s health-care reform is not popular in Kentucky, polls show that nine out of 10 adult Kentuckians favor its goals, the president of the Foundation for...
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Experts disagree on whether states will choose to expand Medicaid
Experts disagree on whether states will choose to expand Medicaid, a crucial, but voluntary, part of the federal health-care reform law. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled the federal government could...