Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Kentuckians binge drink more often than residents of any other state, national survey for federal health agency finds
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Kentuckians binge drink an average of about six times per month, more often than people living in any other state, a report by the...
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Spend $1 on smoking cessation, save $3 in health costs, Massachusetts study finds
Every $1 spent on smoking cessation in Massachusetts, saved $3 in health costs, a study of low-income Bay State residents found. That could bode well for the impact of a...
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1 percent of population accounts for 22 percent of health-care spending, study finds
Just 1 percent of Americans were responsible for 22 percent of the nation’s $1.26 trillion in health-care costs in 2009, and 5 percent accounted for 50 percent of costs, a...
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Rural women are less likely to complete vaccinations for cervical-cancer virus; study finds vaccine does not increase sexual activity
Women living in rural areas of the U.S. were far less likely to return for their follow-up doses after they get the initial injection of the human papillomavirus vaccine, a...
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Shigellosis cases are on the rise in Louisville
There have been 60 confirmed cases of shingellosis in Louisville in the past three months, compared to an average of 62 per year in the area. About half of the...
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More transparency, accountability needed regarding child abuse, group plans to tell legislators
To decrease the number of children who are killed or nearly killed by abuse and neglect, there needs to be improved transparency and accountability at the Cabinet for Health and...
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Recession has hit health departments hard: 23,000 jobs (15%) lost, core funding cut
Funding and job cuts as a result of the economic recession have weakened the impact public health departments have on their communities, says a series of articles published in the...
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Electronic health records are helping nurses provide better care, big study finds
Electronic health records are helping nurses get better health outcomes and are improving nursing care, the first big study on the subject has found. The study conducted by the University...
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Requiring prescription for pseudoephedrine is ‘silver bullet’ against meth, drug officials say; some lawmakers disagree
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News If Kentucky wants to arm itself with a “silver bullet” against methamphetamine, it needs to make pseudoephedrine available only prescription. That was the advice...
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Health reform means millions more will be covered and more illness will be prevented, federal health official says at UK
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News What will the healthvcare system look like in 2020? Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Howard Koh told a packed house in Lexington Monday that...