Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Senate panel OKs pill-mill bill with provision moving prescription-monitoring system to attorney general’s office
Over the objections of the Kentucky Medical Association, a Senate committee today approved a bill that would “transfer oversight of the state’s prescription-monitoring system from the Cabinet for Health and...
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State starting free training for dentists in pediatric dentistry
One of the many problems with Kentucky’s oral health is that not enough dentists are willing to accept children as patients, or lack proficiency in treating children when they are...
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Obama finally embraces the Republican term ‘Obamacare’
“The Obama administration made a decision on Friday to own the term‘ObamaCare’,” NBC News reports in its First Read blog, adding a capital letter not often used. “It had been...
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More foreign-born doctors practice in rural areas, come from poor nations; Kentucky is about average, West Virginia is high
More than 15 percent of physicians in the U.S. received training in lower-income countries, including India, Pakistan and the Phillippines, a new study has found, reports Lori Kersey of The Charleston Gazette....
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Rural newspapers don’t write a lot of health stories — but they should, expert says
“If a newspaper can’t stand for better health and better health care, then what in the world can it stand for?” This was the galvanizing statement of a talk today...
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Rural newspapers have power to influence people’s health, but few health articles are being published in Kentucky, study finds
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Though studies suggest that newspapers can influence people’s decisions about their health and can even lead to public-policy changes, for the most part Kentucky’s...
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Book about Appalachian health reveals region and culture-specific issues for researchers, region’s residents
Editors of a new book hope it will shed light on the health problems facing Appalachia while debunking myths about the culture. Robert Ludke and Phillip Obermiller, both of the...
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Norton and UK HealthCare formalize the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will “focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in...
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Conflicting interpretations abound regarding CBO’s report about cost, coverage of Affordable Care Act
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Since the Congressional Budget Office released a report with revised estimates about how many people the Affordable Care Act will cover and how much...
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Affordable Care Act helping families, seniors in rural areas, agriculture secretary says on its second anniversary
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is already making an impact, including for people who live in rural America. That was the message from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today...