Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Majority of Americans now support comprehensive smoking bans
For the first time since it started asking the question in 2001, a majority of Americans polled by the Gallup Organization say they support a ban on smoking in all...
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Program serving young, blind children hit hard by state budget cuts
A program that helps educate blind preschoolers throughout Kentucky has had its state funding drastically cut. Louisville-based Visually Impaired Preschool Services, also known as VIPS, will only receive $10,000 from the...
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State health commissioner retiring after seven years in the job, fighting for public health and expanding its role
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News After dealing with the aftermath of 9/11, an anthrax scare, H1N1 flu, the worst ice storm in Kentucky’s history and a series of budget...
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Louisville hospital merger could thwart some patients’ final wishes
More concerns are being raised about the merger that would put a Catholic hospital group in charge of the University of Louisville‘s hospital. First, it was the prospect that women...
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UK center probes the science of muscles and exercise
Exercise is good for you. But it’s not that simple. “Doctors and scientists have a lot of questions about why exercise is so beneficial, how muscles work and the role...
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Optometrists, ophthalmologists renew battle over optometrists’ ability to perform medical procedures
Ophthalmologists renewed their fight yesterday against new rules “that would allow optometrists to perform more complex procedures that critics say will endanger patients,” Mike Wynn of The Courier-Journal reports. The...
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Former boss of troubled personal-care home is indicted
“Another former administrator of a troubled Letcher County personal care home has been indicted on charges of witness tampering and theft,” Beth Musgrave reports for the Lexington Herald-Leader. A county...
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Patients in isolated rural areas have higher rates of death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease living in isolated rural areas “seem to be at greater risk” of death from COPD than those living in urban areas, even when “hospital rurality...
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Justice Dept. accuses Erlanger nursing home of collecting on ‘worthless services;’ suit is first of its kind in Kentucky
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil complaint against Villaspring Health Care and Rehabilitation in Erlanger and its parent company, Carespring Health Care Management, claiming they “billed Medicare and Medicaid...
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Louisville hospital merger probably means poor women won’t get their tubes tied at University Hospital any more
Women who deliver through Caesarean sections at the University of Louisville Hospital may no longer be able to get their fallopian tubes tied at the same time, Patrick Howington of the...