Tag: cancer
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Baptist Health joins national network that combines data to help patients get the best cancer care
Baptist Health has joined a national network that facilitates the sharing of health information with other hospitals in its network to improve and personalize cancer treatments, all while keeping its...
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Great American Smokeout is Thursday, Nov. 19
Thursday, Nov. 19, is the Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers are encouraged to quit for the day and make a plan to quit for good. That remains important...
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Kentucky is among states with low rates of screening for cancers of the private parts, and thus has a higher death rate from them
Poor, minority and rural residents are less likely to be screened for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers and more likely to have high mortality rates from the diseases because they...
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U of L gets patents for new cancer treatments, spinal cord treatments and a new bone graft product
The University of Louisville Research Foundation has recently been awarded patents for improved cancer treatments, a new bone graft material, and therapies for spinal cord damage, and two of the...
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New cancer treatment for late stage lung cancer that was developed at UK is approved for clinical trials
Researchers at the University of Kentucky have pioneered a new medical device for the treatment of late stage lung cancer, which has now been approved for clinical trials by the...
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Study finds that teens who use e-cigarettes are more than twice as likely as non-using teens to start smoking tobacco products
image: usnews.com Teens who use electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to start smoking tobacco than those who have never used the devices, according to a study...
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Legislative freshmen’s bipartisan bill, now law, lets tax refund to go to pediatric cancer research, or part of it to rape crisis centers
Gov. Steve Beshear held a ceremonial signing Aug. 12 of a bill that creates a option on individual state income-tax returns to divert refunds for the study and treatment of...
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Feds fund Ky. campaign to promote shots for human papilloma virus, the most common sexually transmitted disease
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Lt. Gov. Crit Luallen joined public health officials in Frankfort July 13 to launch Kentucky’s new “Stop HPV Campaign,” to encourage parents to get...
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Study finds that one dose of HPV vaccine that targets only cervical cancer is as effective as three doses, now recommended
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A study has found that one dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix appears to be as effective in preventing HPV infections that lead...
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KentuckyOne Health turns down ethics panel’s request to remove or change cancer treatment banner advertisement
A Louisville cancer center features a giant banner that says: “FIGHT CANCER WITH 5 or FEWER TREATMENTS.” The treatment, called CyberKnife and performed at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center,...