Tag: research
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Fight against obesity needs to model the one against smoking, key federal official says at Appalachian Health Summit
By Tara Kaprowy and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Obesity is linked to so many other health problems that Americans need to see it as deadly as smoking cigarettes, the federal...
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High use of meds earns Louisville bad name for allergies, which are becoming more common as pollination periods expand
Louisville is the second worst American city for spring allergy sufferers, based on use of allergy medicine, says the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. Though the city has only...
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Most Ky. communities not friendly to walkers, joggers, cyclists
Few Kentuckians live in walkable communities, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. Only 32 percent of Kentucky adults said there are a number...
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Feds say they will post data on performance of dialysis centers
“Federal regulators say they are moving to make once-confidential data about the performance of kidney dialysis clinics more readily available to the public,” reports Robin Fields of ProPublica, the nonprofit,...
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People with low health literacy are more likely to get sick, die
Health literacy rates are increasingly gaining the attention of providers, organizations and lawmakers. A new report based on study of medical literature says people who are unable to understand and act on issues...
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Most Kentuckians say they don’t understand health-reform law
Though parts of the new national health-care law have started to take effect, three out of four Kentucky adults say they don’t understand how the new policies will affect them,...
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Kentucky teens under 18 among least likely to drink alcohol, but binge drinking among them is nearly the national average
About 6 percent (709,000 of 12 million) of U.S. children aged 12 to 14 drank alcohol in 2009, and nearly half got their drinks from their own home, according to...
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Kentucky’s rates of leisure-time physical activity are among the lowest in the nation; Carter and Pike counties may be the worst
In three-fourths of Kentucky’s counties, more than 30 percent of adults say they get no physical activity in their leisure time, according to new survey data from the Centers for...
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Vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella doesn’t cause autism, so get your children immunized, UK doctor says
A University of Kentucky psychiatrist is encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) now that scientists have found no connection between the vaccine and...
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UK scientists discover a clue to treating diseases like ‘mad cow’
University of Kentucky scientists may be a step closer to finding a way to treat diseases related to prion proteins, including bovine spongiform encephalitis, or mad-cow disease. They’ve learned that...