Tag: television
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Free screenings of new Kentucky colon-cancer documentary, plus Q and A, are scheduled in Louisville, Lexington and Hazard
The Colon Cancer Prevention Project is premiering its new documentary, “Catching a Killer: Colon Cancer in the Bluegrass,” in three select cities, before it starts airing on KET this summer....
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KET to focus attention on cancer with Ken Burns series March 30-April 1, live call-in program on night of April 1
Kentucky Health News KET will show a three-night series, “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” by Ken Burns, an in-depth look at the history of cancer, patients’ stories and the “latest...
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Authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic will talk on KET about its causes, myths, complications, treatment and prevention
Kentucky Health News The message that the authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic: A Manifesto for Control and Prevention want readers to take from their book is that “diabetes is a...
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KET will discuss asthma Monday night: living with it, its environmental affects, and available resources to deal with it
KET‘s current “Health Three60” program is “Easing the Burden of Asthma,” discussing a disease that hospitalizes more than 6,000 Kentuckians a year. After debuting on KET Sept. 29 at 9...
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Henderson County Schools post videos to explain changes in meals, snacks and school fund-raisers involving food
Student Nibre Fortune chose food items at Henderson’s Jefferson Elementary School last April. (Gleaner photo by Mike Lawrence) To help parents and students understand the federally mandated changes in school...
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KET will look Monday night at why lack of sleep is bad for your health, and offer advice on improving sleep quality
We live in a country where a third of adults report that they get less than six hours of sleep a night, which doesn’t seem like a big deal until...
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KET’s ‘Safe and Sound: Raising Emotionally Healthy Children in a Stressful World’ premieres April 17, first airs April 21
Though new parents often have access to many resources of information on how to care for their children physically, they are usually not as well-informed about raising them to be...
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UK Children’s Hospital plans to resume heart surgeries after hiatus caused by deaths of five children, departure of surgeon
The University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital plans to resume heart surgeries, following a suspension of the program prompted by the deaths of five children in 11 months and the departure...
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Study says ’16 and Pregnant’ reality TV show is responsible for 5.7% decline in births to teens, but numbers still high in Kentucky
The MTV show “16 and Pregnant” has been highly criticized, not only for featuring pregnant teens, but because some of the cast members have since been arrested, gotten into trouble...
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Haynes says Obamacare may drive down Ky.’s health ranking initially because so many uninsured have gone undiagnosed
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s low health rankings may get lower before they go up, both because of the state’s expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform, the...