Tag: research
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Report: Electronic health records haven’t cut health costs
The conversion to electronic health records isn’t producing savings in health-care costs predicted by a 2005 report, and it’s had mixed results in improving efficiency and patient care, according to...
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Painkiller epidemic was driven in part by drug makers’ financial relationships with researchers who discounted the risks
For almost a decade, medical officials and experts claimed OxyContin rarely posed problems of addiction for patients. The drug’s label, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, said addiction...
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Deaths from drug overdoses in Kentucky hit new high in 2010; more than half involved prescription drugs
Deaths from drug overdoses in Kentucky jumped to a new high in 2010, and “rose a staggering 296 percent from 2000 to 2010,” Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. “A...
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U.S. teens’ cigarette use drops to a new low, but use of alcohol goes up a bit and more 12th graders are smoking marijuana
Teenagers’ cigarette smoking dropped to a record low this year but alcohol use rose slightly after seven years of decline, according to a survey of 45,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-...
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Health care decisions by and for Medicare patients differ widely by place; Lexington big in back surgery, low in mastectomy
All medicine involves decisions and, according to a new series of nine reports published by the Dartmouth Atlas Project, those decisions differ drastically by location for Medicare patients. In the...
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Children with TVs in their bedrooms are twice as likely to have extra fat, three times greater risk of heart disease and diabetes
Kids who have TVs in their bedrooms are twice as likely to be fat and nearly three times as likely to be at risk for heart disease and diabetes as...
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Colorful fruits and vegetables linked to lower breast cancer risk
Come to find out, pink isn’t the most important color when it comes to breast cancer. According to researchers in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, women loading up...
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UK team gets $1.5 million NIH grant to continue success with cell-level study of Alzheimer’s disease factor
University of Kentucky researchers have provided the first direct evidence that activated astrocytes could play a harmful role in Alzheimer’s disease. A UK news release explains, “The astrocyte is a...
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Hey, fans! Lower your voice and protect your ears; your hearing might be at stake
Ray Hull (Wichita State Univ. photo) December is the cruelest month, basketball fans — in more ways than one. Witness this news out of Kansas. Yes, Kansas: Loud basketball games...
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Merry Christmas: Mistletoe extract being used for colorectal cancer treatment in Europe, could be a great boon for Kentucky
Kentucky has one of the highest rates of colorectal cancers in the nation, with about 50 of every 100,000 Kentuckians being diagnosed with the disease each year. The state also...