Category: YOUR HEALTH
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New website, www.SortingThroughTheSmoke.com, offers journalists local and state information on tobacco and health
Three Kentucky organizations are launching a website to serve as a one-stop shop for journalists covering tobacco and health issues in Kentucky, and for others interested in documenting the impact...
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New law on diabetes educators is only one of its kind in U.S.
The new Kentucky law requiring that diabetes educators be licensed is the only one of its kind in the country. The American Association of Diabetes Educators says the law will...
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Drink bottles, cans must now show calorie content on front
In an effort to educate people about how many calories they’re sucking back, the front labels of packaged beverages in bottles or cans of 20 ounces or less must now...
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Maine gets health-reform exemption that Kentucky also wants
Maine has been granted an exemption that Kentucky is also seeking — one that will exclude it from being subject to the health reform’s medical-care ratio rules. The ratio requirement...
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Forum on health-reform law to be held in Lexington March 21
In time for the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a forum will be held in Lexington to review the ins and outs...
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Madisonville hospital earns national award for program that helps pregnant women maintain, improve oral health
For its work in improving oral health in prenatal patients, the Center for Women’s Health at Trover Health System in Madisonville has received a national award. The William J. Gies...
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Judge rules Passport managed-care plan for Medicaid in Louisville region is subject to state Open Records Act
As Kentucky prepares to put more of its Medicaid program under a managed-care system to save money, a judge has ruled that the contractor running the program’s only managed-care plan...
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Well-being index gives rankings for Kentucky’s congressional districts and metropolitan areas; some are very bad
In keeping with its second-to-last state ranking in the 2010 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, which assessed people’s physical and emotional health across the country, one of Kentucky’s congressional districts and its...
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Rogers, Florida colleague file measure to crack down on ‘pill mills’
U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers of Eastern Kentucky’s 5th District continues to pressure the White House for more action to crack down on “crook doctors operating these pill mills,” the...
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Heavy smoking less common than 40 years ago
The percentage of people who smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day decreased significantly from 1965 to 2007 in the United States, according to a study in the March 16...