Tag: television
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KET offers program about diabetes prevention and control
KET‘s “Connections with Renee Shaw” is offering a program about diabetes prevention and control on KET2 Friday, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. and KET Sunday, Nov. 10 at 1:30 p.m....
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Obamacare will work, Beshear promises on ‘Meet the Press’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing Kentucky examples, Gov. Steve Beshear promised a national audience on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning that the federal health-reform law will work, despite...
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KET program to feature citizens who work in three programs to improve the health of Kentucky children
The next episode of KET‘s “Health Three60” series will be a program that features citizens who have made a difference in the health of Kentucky children. “Champions for Children’s Health”...
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Middle- and high-school students invited to create 30-second videos discouraging prescription drug abuse, win prizes in contest
Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Safe partners invite Kentucky middle- and high-school students to compete in the annual Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Public Service Announcement contest. Contestants...
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KET will show how annual county health rankings are stirring competition to improve health, community by community
The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 counties Kentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. But what if that same spirit of competition was...
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Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit
Hancock with CDC Director Tom Frieden A 38-year-old Elizabethtown mother’s response to a federally funded anti-smoking advertising campaign has been featured in national news this week, showing that these graphic ads...
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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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Health coalition asks Nickelodeon to stop marketing sugary and fatty snacks to children
A coalition of health groups thinks maybe it’s time to enlist SpongeBob in the childhood obesity fight. Earlier this week, the groups asked the Nickelodeon Channel to stop airing commercials...
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KET talks with experts on heart disease and health reform tonight
Some nationally recognized heart specialists will speak directly to Kentuckians about heart disease tonight on the season premiere of Health Three60 on KET. Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death...
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Pat Boone commercial about Medicare has many inaccuracies
A television commerical misleads seniors into believing the federal health-care reform law will ration and deny care and contains other inaccuracies, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, non-profit service based at...