Category: YOUR HEALTH
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This is Suicide Prevention Week; mother-lawyer-nurse says we can prevent it among children by building their resilience
By Kate Hendrickson Community columnist, Lexington Herald-Leader Another parent has lost a child — this time a fourth-grader — to suicide. Appallingly, suicide is the second-leading cause of death for children in...
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Op-ed calls for smoking bans to include e-cigs and for an e-cig tax to decrease teen use; new e-cigs are easy for teens to hide
A used package of Juul cartridges, found on a Frankfort sidewalk. (Photo by Al Cross) As students head back to school and concerns about their increasing use of a new electronic...
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Sept. 18 webinar will explore why rural areas lag in getting children a vaccine that can prevent a major type of cancer
The Rural Health Information Hub will hold a webinar to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s recent report showing that rural teens are less likely than their urban peers to know about the human papilloma...
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At first SOAR summit session only about health, speakers agree local cooperation is needed to address Appalachia’s health issues
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News PIKEVILLE, Ky. – From top to bottom of the health-care system, speakers agreed local cooperation is essential to improving health in Appalachian Kentucky. They...
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State health official says Ky. is considering cutting nearly 500,000 people off of Medicaid because of a $300 million program shortfall
Health officials said the state is considering eliminating Medicaid coverage to almost 500,000 Kentuckians because the program is facing a nearly $300 million shortfall. During a review of the 2018...
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Insurance expert advises: understand premiums, coverage, Obamacare subsidies and how much risk you want to assume
‘Anyone buying health insurance this fall faces a daunting task: having to choose among multiple, often-complex options that offer widely varying degrees of protection,” Trudy Lieberman of the Rural Health News...
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Suicide Prevention Week Sept. 9-15; officials and journalists are paying more attention to this growing cause of death in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In Kentucky, one person dies by suicide about every 11 hours, making it the 11th leading cause of death overall, according to data from...
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Most who think they’re allergic to penicillin aren’t; that can lead to over-use of antibiotics and resistant infections, a big issue in Ky.
About 10 percent of Americans say or think they have a penicillin allergy, but 90 percent of those people are not truly allergic and could tolerate the drug, according to the U.S. Centers...
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Study finds non-smoking children of smoking adults 31 percent more likely to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
If one or both of your parents smoked and you didn’t, you are still more likely to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, says a study published Thursday by the American Cancer Society....
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Louisville doctor has possible cure for rare brain disease of Iranian woman, who gets visa after CJ story
UPDATE, Aug. 13: “U.S. officials in Armenia granted Marzieh Taheri, 61, the exemption on Monday, just hours after her son sent them links to the Courier Journal‘s initial article about her...