Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Hospital employees report only 1 of 7 medical errors, study finds
In keeping with other studies on the subject, a new report shows hospital employees only report and recognize one out of every seven medical errors, accidents or other events that...
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Some employers stop hiring smokers in effort to ‘walk the walk’
As smoking bans become more common nationwide, employers are taking it one step further and refusing to hire people who smoke. Primarily in hospitals, employers “won’t hire applicants whose urine...
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Beshear talks to University Hospital officials about future
Gov. Steve Beshear met with officials with University Hospital officials yesterday to discuss ways the facility can take part in a merger. Last week, Beshear rejected a much-publicized proposal that would...
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Expect action against pill mills, Beshear says in State of Commonwealth address; House GOP leader promises it
Gov. Steve Beshear received only two standing ovations during his State of the Commonwealth address last night, when he mentioned Kentucky soldiers and when he talked about fighting prescription drug...
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Several pieces of federal health reform law taking effect in 2012
At the beginning of the new year, family doctors started facing a 1 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement if they hadn’t nixed their paper-based prescription pads in favor of an...
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January is Glaucoma Awareness Month; disease is second leading cause of blindness
One million Americans will be diagnosed with glaucoma in the next 10 years, prompting Kentucky optometrists to raise awareness of the disease this month. “People who do not visit their...
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“Stop Meth, Not Meds,” ad sponsored by drug industry advises
With some legislators saying a law is needed to make the decongestant pseudoephedrine available only by prescription, the Kentucky Healthcare Products Association has launched an advertising campaign to fight the...
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Foundation funded by drug companies calls pill abuse overblown
Almost 15,000 Americans die a year from prescription pain medication, a statistic that has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calling the problem “an epidemic.” But while the issue...
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Pain clinics in Texas skirting law by calling themselves ‘wellness’ or ‘rehab’ facilities
Calling themselves rehabilitation or wellness clinics is the latest way operators of pill mills are skirting the law in Texas, which requires pain management clinics to register and be inspected...
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Doctor report cards will be as big a failure as No Child Left Behind, physician contends in op-ed piece
Tying physicians’ reimbursements to how well they score on a Medicare report card is akin to the federal government having schools submit to No Child Left Behind, asserts Dr. Barry...