Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Flu spreads in Kentucky as the holiday season begins; health officials’ advice: get vaccinated, and don’t shake hands
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has seen 785 laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza since the flu season started in late September, and health officials say there are many more....
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Researchers find mental health of parents matters when it comes to child obesity; study also examined role of income and rurality
As more of the nation’s children become overweight or obese, especially in rural areas, researchers are beginning to look beyond some of the known causes, like inactivity and a poor diet,...
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Pharmacies could help get more teens vaccinated for a virus that causes sex-related cancers, in which Kentucky leads the nation
Alabama Department of Public Health —– There’s a vaccine for a virus that causes sex-related cancer, but rural teens are less likely to get it or know about it. Rural pharmacies could...
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Employer-sponsored insurance health plans in Ky. more costly in 2018; high premiums and deductibles leave many underinsured
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A recent analysis by The Commonwealth Fund, a foundation interested in the health-care system, shows that the overall cost of employer-sponsored insurance plans keeps going up, and...
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Kentucky offers free service to help teens quit vaping and smoking; Courier Journal reports on how few teen options exist
In an effort to help teenagers stop vaping, the Kentucky Department for Public Health has launched a free service called “My Life, My Quit.” The service allows teens who want to quit...
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Ky. has improved on several measures of children’s health, but some counties continue to lag far behind and get worse
Terry Brooks (Kentucky Youth Advocates photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Almost one in four Kentuckians are children. How goes their health? Most have health insurance, fewer teenagers are...
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March of Dimes gives Ky. D-minus for high rate of pre-term births; maternal deaths spike; new collaborative will work on such issues
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Childbirth, which should be one of life’s most joyous occasions, has become more deadly for Kentucky mothers, and remains problematic for many Kentucky babies...
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More action needed to protect patients from antibiotic-resistant infections, which kill an American every 15 minutes, CDC says
The University of Louisville Hospital got a D overall in the Leapfrog Group’s patient-safety ratings and was rated poorly in dealing with one of the major antibiotic-resistant infections, Methicillin-resistant staphlycoccus areus (MRSA), and C. diff, an infection related...
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With the holiday season just ahead, it’s more important than ever to get this year’s flu shot, state health department says
Mayo Clinic photo —– The state Department for Public Health is pushing Kentuckians to get their flu shots, since the holiday season is approaching. “People will be traveling and families will gather...
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Rural weekly reports on increasing tick-borne allergy to red meat
Map shows cases entered by site users and is not verified. For a larger version of the map, click on it. —– A tick-borne allergy to red meat is becoming...