Author: Al Cross
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Leading tobacco foe is fighting Big Tobacco again, this time because the industry has taken over the electronic cigarette trade
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One of the nation’s top anti-tobacco advocates told his Kentucky allies last week that the debate about electronic cigarettes makes him feel like he’s...
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FDA launches its first advertising campaign aimed at rural youth about the dangers of smokeless tobacco
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched a campaign on the dangers of smokeless tobacco among rural teens. FDA is expanding its “The Real Cost” campaign “to educate rural,...
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Women in small-town America aren’t living as long as before; alcohol, drugs, food, housing, jobs, education, pollution to blame
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Those of us who grew up in small rural communities in the 1950s and ’60s expected to have longer life spans than our...
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If legislature won’t help protect Kentuckians from the health threat of tobacco, local governments should, Herald-Leader says
Since the Kentucky General Assembly “adjourned without tackling the addiction that kills the most Kentuckians, tobacco,” local communities need to take up the challenge, the Lexington Herald-Leader said in an...
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Study indicates fast food contains industrial chemicals linked to health problems such as infertility, diabetes and allergies
People who eat a lot of fast food have higher levels of chemicals that “have been linked to a number of adverse health outcomes, including higher rates of infertility,” especially...
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Spring fever: If over-the-counter medicines don’t quell your allergies, it’s a good time to see an allergist
By Ann Blackford University of Kentucky The beauty of spring is upon us, but as lovely as it may be to look at, it can wreak havoc in your nose,...
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Rural drug-overdose rates, high in Kentucky, blamed partly on limits on treatment medication and mental-health services
“People in rural areas of Appalachia are more likely to die early deaths than in other parts of the country,” and a big reason is that they “die from drug...
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In Pineville, a new administrator from a Texas management firm is shaking up the local hospital in an effort to save it
Kentucky Health News The crisis in rural hospitals is driven not only by changes in federal reimbursement and patients’ increasing preference for larger hospitals, but in some towns by managerial...
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Is pervasive pornography the newest public-health crisis?
Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston and author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality, argues in an essay for The Washington Post that...
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Feds find security flaws in Kynect; state says no data breaches; problems also found in federal exchange
State health-insurance exchanges in Kentucky, Vermont and California had “significant weaknesses” in protecting their electronic information from hackers, the Government Accountability Office said in a report last month. “These included...