Category: YOUR HEALTH
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First lady didn’t donate to breast cancer fund; Gov. Beshear announces collaboration to fight many cancers
Though First Lady Jane Beshear made headlines Monday when it was discovered neither she nor Gov. Steve Beshear had checked off a donation box to support breast cancer research on...
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Extensive series focuses on the many faces of mental illness
Mental illness in Rowan County is the subject of an eight-part series of stories written by Noelle Hunter for The Morehead News. With Part 1 largely an introduction to the...
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Avoiding immunizations on religious grounds is risky: Bill Moyers
The movie “Contagion” has veteran journalist and commentator Bill Moyers thinking about how fast a deadly disease outbreak can spread, something that can be further propagated by children whose parents have...
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Kentucky ranks next to last, Fifth Congressional District dead last in national healthiness and happiness survey
(Click on images for larger versions) Kentucky was again next to last among the states in happiness and healthiness of its residents in 2011, ranking above only West Virginia, though...
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Will birth-control mandate cost more or less? Yet to be seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the...
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ER at Louisville’s University Hospital says it is pushed to brink; many other hospitals seeing more emergency patients
Louisville’s University Hospital is straining to meet the vastly increased demand of patients coming to the emergency room. Last year, there were 58,010 visits to the ER to the facility,...
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Convenience, not expense, is making us avoid eating fruits, vegetables and other non-processed foods
A lack of convenience, not a high price, is the major obstacle to getting people to eat more fruit and vegetables, a study published in the journal Public Health Nutrition...
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Judge orders Cabinet for Health and Family Services to speed up its release of child-abuse records
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been given 90 days to release thousands of pages pertaining to about 180 cases of children who died or were badly injured...
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Meds-for-meth bill sent back to committee; compromise in the works, original sponsor says
The bill that would make pseudoephedrine — the key ingredient to make methamphetamine — available only by prescription was taken off the Senate floor Thursday afternoon. The bill’s original sponsor,...
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Kentucky receives $57.9 million to set up insurance exchange
Kentucky received $57.9 million Wednesday to help set up a health insurance exchange or marketplace — though lawmakers have made no move to make that happen. Kentucky is one of...