Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Picnic season has arrived, which calls for extra food-safety steps; CDC offers four rules to follow: Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill
CDC graphic —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Summer picnic and barbecue season is in full swing, which also means it’s the season for an uptick in the number...
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Tick-borne disease in Ky. is relatively rare, but does occur; best defense against these tiny disease-carrying vectors is prevention
Top three tick posters from a contest held by the Kentucky Department of Public Health and Northern Kentucky Health Department, which attracted more than 700 entries (Click on it for...
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Ky. children among least vaccinated for cancer causing human papillomavirus; state has highest rate of HPV-related cancers
Did you know there’s a vaccine that can prevent certain types of cancer? Many Kentuckians don’t know. As part of a statewide effort to educate them, a Bardstown woman told...
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As the tobacco industry transitions into e-cigarettes, McConnell transitions from tobacco advocate into health advocate
Sen. Mitch McConnell, right, endorsed making 21 the legal age for tobacco products at the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky on April 18 with CEO Ben Chandler, state Rep. Kim Moser of Taylor...
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Ky. 34th in overall well-being of children in Kids Count; best rank is in health, worst is in ‘family and community,’ cause of many ills
Kids Count charts; for larger versions, click on each image. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The 30th annual Kids Count Data Book on children’s well-being, released Monday by...
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Scorecard ranks Kentucky’s health system 40th; bright spot is health insurance; biggest increasing problem is drug overdoses
Chart by The Commonwealth Fund, which explains: (a) The 2019 rankings generally reflect 2017 data. (b) Comparisons are with a “baseline” period, which varies among the measured indicators. The report says, “There were generally...
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Medicare cuts 19 Kentucky hospitals 1% for patient-safety issues; two in Louisville have been been penalized five years straight
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo —– The federal government is penalizing 19 Kentucky hospitals, nine more than last year, for falling short on patient safety in the fiscal...
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Study finds young adults who recognize cartoons used in e-cigarette marketing are more likely to use e-cigs in the future
Label, copyright 2015 by Brian Allen —– Electronic cigarette companies are using cartoon characters to market their products, and research shows that it’s working, Jon-Patrick Allem writes on The Conversation. Allem is an...
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UK nurse creates Farm Dinner Theater as a way to remind farmers of safe practices; has some unexpected benefits
A University of Kentucky nursing professor has come up with a novel way to remind farmers about farm safety: dinner theater. At Farm Dinner Theater, farmers watch each other perform funny skits...
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Foundation says its 6-year, 7-county effort to help communities tackle health issues can be a model for the rest of the state
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky map of recently finished “Investing in Kentucky’s Future” program —– If more Kentucky communities tackled their health issues as communities, the overall health of the...