Diabetic youth have medical costs of more than $9,000 a year
Children who have diabetes incur medical costs of more than $9,000 a year, a number that is six times greater than for children who don’t have the disease, a new...
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Children who have diabetes incur medical costs of more than $9,000 a year, a number that is six times greater than for children who don’t have the disease, a new...
Seven academic centers and community organizations have come together to pool their resources and improve the health of Appalachian residents. They have formed the Appalachian Translational Research Network, which includes...
“Federal regulators say they are moving to make once-confidential data about the performance of kidney dialysis clinics more readily available to the public,” reports Robin Fields of ProPublica, the nonprofit,...
The new Kentucky law requiring that diabetes educators be licensed is the only one of its kind in the country. The American Association of Diabetes Educators says the law will...
In three-fourths of Kentucky’s counties, more than 30 percent of adults say they get no physical activity in their leisure time, according to new survey data from the Centers for...
Diabetes, a bigger problem in Kentucky than in most states, is exploding nationally. The number of U.S. adults treated for the disease more than doubled between 1996 and 2007, the...