Category: YOUR HEALTH
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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...
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Access to healthy food: A local angle is available on a national event tomorrow, and here’s a Kentucky example
Update, July 21: First Lady Michelle Obama announced Wal-Mart and other retailers plan to open or expand 1,500 stores in the next five years in areas that do not have...
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Website helps journalists, community planners, other Kentuckians in search of county-specific health data
A treasure trove of health data about every county in Kentucky is available to journalists and community planners looking to draw a statistical picture of their area. That was the...
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Defenders of small, rural hospitals take issue with study that found poor patient outcomes
A recent study that concluded small, rural “critical access hospitals” have poorer patient outcomes and lower quality of care is making waves in the medical community. A federally funded monitoring...
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All students at many Kentucky schools will get free lunches, regardless of household income
All students in as many as 102 of Kentucky’s 174 school districts will get a free lunch every day starting next month. Kentucky is one of three states to be...