Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Smokers should pay more for health insurance, but obese should not, national poll finds
Nearly 60 percent of people in October’s Thomson Reuters–NPR Health Poll said smokers should pay more for their health insurance than those who don’t smoke, but 69 percent said “no”...
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University Hospital files suit saying it is not public; could affect merger, open records
Attorney General Jack Conway may have ruled it a public entity and thus subject to open-records laws, but University Hospital officials are insisting that’s not the case and have filed...
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Louisville hospital merger would be just one of dozens across the country, driven by economic and regulatory concerns
Hospitals are banding together to create organizations better able to withstand the changing tides of the economy and health-care policy. The proposed merger of Louisville’s Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s...
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Beshear appoints panel to identify docs with suspicious prescribing practices
Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a panel that will help identify the state’s health providers who are prescribing a suspicious amount of pain pills. The move is to help combat...
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Ky. premature births declining, but still above national average
Giving birth to a baby before it has been brought to full term has become less common in the U.S. and Kentucky, but the nation still only received a C,...
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Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic nationwide and in Ky.
Prescription pain medicine overdoses now kill more people in the U.S. than heroin and cocaine combined, with 40 Americans dying every day from painkiller abuse. “This stems from a few...
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Study finds doctors often overestimate how well they communicate in English as a second langauge
A study appearing in Health Services Research shows physicians who speak English as a second language, an increasing phenomenon in the U.S. and parts of Kentucky, often overrate how well...
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UK surgeons first to do life-saving lung procedures in tandem
Surgeons at the University of Kentucky are the first in medical history to perform two procedures in tandem to bridge a lung transplantation. The procedures were performed first on Wanda...
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Smokeless tobacco can help you quit cigarettes, Owensboro-area residents are told (partly with tobacco money)
“Switch and quit” is the theme of an advertising campaign being promoted by a prominent cancer center in Kentucky, in which smokers are advised to lay off the cigarettes in...
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Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy Conference to be held Nov. 11 in Lexington
Focusing on issues like hospital- and health care-acquired infections, the impact of medical errors and infections on patients, and the importance of transparency, the Health Care Transparency and Patient Advocacy...