Diabetes UK photo The food and festivities that are part of the holiday season can make it hard to eat healthy, especially if you...
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Even if Obamacare automatically re-enrolls you, check out your options; open enrollment ends earlier this year: Dec. 15 Healthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This is the first year that more than 80,000 Kentuckians with a 2017 health insurance plan on the...
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Study: Combination of a low-salt and heart-healthy diet is as good as drug therapy for many adults with high blood pressureHealthy Care
A new study finds that cutting back on salt and following the heart-healthy DASH diet can lower blood pressure, a disease that affects almos...
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Progression of Alzheimer's disease can be slowed, even though its cause isn't known and there is yet no cure for itHealthy Care
People with Alzheimer's disease can do something about it. That statement may surprise you, because no cure has been developed for the...
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Central Ky. newspapers endorse $1-a-pack hike in cigarette tax; more legislators talking about need to raise more revenueHealthy Care
The Lexington Herald-Leader's editorial was accompanied by an an X-ray from the American Lung Association showing lung cancer. ...
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Many Kentuckians with Obamacare plans got premium notices that over-estimated costs for 2018; see HealthCare.gov for factsHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With a shortened enrollment period, huge cuts in advertising and in-person assistance, and ongoin...
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Barbarians at the gates of RomeHealthy Research
dis/ordered On the 23rd and 27th September 2017 as part of research leave from Manchester School of Art, I gave a performative presentation...
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State health department declares outbreak of hepatitis A, liver disease often transmitted due to poor sanitary practicesHealthy Care
Secretary of State Grimes forms group to push for legalization of medical marijuana in Kentucky in 2018 legislative sessionHealthy Care
A task force to get medical marijuana legalized in Kentucky held its first meeting Nov. 21 and plans to meet again in December to review leg...
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Kentucky School Boards Association says it will support any legislation to make all schools in state tobacco-freeHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Usually opposed to statewide mandates on schools, the Kentucky School Boards Association says it...
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In US, More than One-Third Think Government and Business Leaders are Corrupt, Media ShrugHealthy Care Renewal
We have noted (most recently here ), that health care corruption , particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countries ...
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Ky. teen suicides more than double in 2 years; one in 12 high-school sophomores say they have tried to kill themselvesHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A recent survey found that one in 12 of Kentucky's high-school sophomores s...
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Study finds 1/3 of Americans haven't heard about open enrollment for subsidized health plans, which ends Dec. 15; here's a primerHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News About a third of Americans haven't heard anything about open enrollment for federally subs...
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Kentucky Primary Care Alliance says its accountable care organization saved Medicare nearly $2 million in its first yearHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Primary Care Alliance says its Medicare accountable care organization, in its firs...
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Casey County High School students win award for their smoke-free efforts; 17 percent of Kentucky's youth are smokersHealthy Care
The Casey Youth Coalition won the health foundation's first Healthy Policy Champion Award for its smoke-free efforts. A gro...
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Perpetual Revolving Motion: Yet More Transits Through the Health Care Revolving DoorHealthy Care Renewal
The pace of people spinning through the US federal revolving door seems unprecedented. Most were people going from the health care cor...
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