Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Haven’t quit smoking, lost weight? Pay more for health insurance, more companies say
In an effort to keep health-care costs down, companies across the country, including Walmart, are opting to charge workers who smoke or are obese higher premiums than their more healthy...
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State’s Medicaid program will be handled by managed care companies starting tomorrow
Update, Nov. 1: Kentucky Voices for Health, a coalition of more than 250 health care organizations, individuals and advocates, released its views on the move to managed care, which they...
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Most beverage companies targeting kids, teens even more to sell sugary drinks, despite pledges; Pepsi an exception
A study analyzing the marketing practices for 600 products made by 14 companies found there is more advertising of sugary drinks to children, despite industry pledges to the contrary. Child...
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Cyber predators have easier access to children because of phones, video games
Child predators have it easier than ever to entice their young victims, due to the ever-growing accessibility of the Internet. “It’s a lot easier now than everybody has the Internet...
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Brain-injured man disappeared when home staff wasn’t looking
On the day of his disappearance, a resident of a personal-care home who was found dead four weeks later had not been checked on by staff for nearly three hours,...
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Kentucky court hearing more than 100 cases about drug that caused heart arrhythmia
More than 100 lawsuits filed by people who say they or their family members were hurt by Darvon, Darvocet or other drugs that contain the ingredient propoxyphene have been heard...
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Giuliani backs P’Pool, citing attorney general candidate’s opposition to health-care reform law
Republican Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and presidential candidate in 2007-08, has endorsed GOP nominee Todd P’Pool in the race for attorney general, citing the candidate’s “eagerness...
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What would solve primary-care crisis, create jobs and help banks? Building community health centers, writer contends
The federal health-care reform law will mean a glut of new patients who will be newly insured and bog down the primary-care system. Thousands of construction workers are out of...
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Boys should get HPV vaccine to keep from spreading virus
A federal committee has recommended that boys receive the human papilloma virus vaccine, already recommended for girls, to fight the sexually transmitted virus that is known to cause cervical cancer....
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PIkeville Medical Center agrees to pay $36,000 to settle claim that it improperly billed Medicare
Pikeville Medical Center has agreed to pay more than $36,000, but does not have to admit any wrongdoing, to settle a lawsuit that accused it of improperly billing Medicare. The...