Tag: health journalism
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Couple shares ‘horrible journey’ of prescription drug abuse
Recovering pill addict Stacy Penningtonof Ashland is due to give birth next month.(Courier-Journal photo by Matt Stone) Stacy and James Pennington had to lose everything, including their children and home, before...
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Newspaper reporting contest for rural health coverage; deadline June 24
Journalists who have reported about rural health in the past year should start sifting through their clippings. The Kentucky Rural Health Association is awarding four writers $100 each for their...
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Couple loses combined 347 pounds in 2 years, pretty simply; similar success stories are always compelling
“When Art and Betty Halcomb look at each other, they still have a hard time believing how much weight they have lost,” reports Nola Sizemore for the Harlan Daily Enterprise....
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Rural newspapers don’t write a lot of health stories — but they should, expert says
“If a newspaper can’t stand for better health and better health care, then what in the world can it stand for?” This was the galvanizing statement of a talk today...
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Rural newspapers have power to influence people’s health, but few health articles are being published in Kentucky, study finds
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Though studies suggest that newspapers can influence people’s decisions about their health and can even lead to public-policy changes, for the most part Kentucky’s...
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Campbellsville pharmacists have mixed views about meds-for-meth bill; a good example of localizing a statewide issue
Pharmacists have mixed opinions about a bill that would require a prescription to purchase pseudoephedrine after a monthly or yearly limit has been reached, reports Calen McKinney for the Central...
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Extensive series focuses on the many faces of mental illness
Mental illness in Rowan County is the subject of an eight-part series of stories written by Noelle Hunter for The Morehead News. With Part 1 largely an introduction to the...
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Columnist likens pain docs to drug pushers and loan sharks
Doctors at some pain management clinics are the equivalent to modern-day drug pushers, writes Richmond business columnist Don McNay in a piece entitled, “Making money in businesses that are supposed...
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In front-page editorial, rural weekly in Adair County demands that board members of county-owned hospital resign
In our experience, most weekly newspapers don’t have editorial pages, much less editorials, so when one puts an editorial on the front page and also runs an editorial about the...
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Evidence grows of links between oral health and overall health
“The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the mouth provides an even better view of the body as a whole,” The Wall Street Journal‘s Melinda Beck writes...