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 -HEALTHYLIVE
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 pressure-HEALTHYLIVE
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 it-HEALTHYLIVE
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 revenue-HEALTHYLIVE
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 facts-HEALTHYLIVE
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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State health department declares outbreak of hepatitis A, liver disease often transmitted due to poor sanitary practices-HEALTHYLIVE
Secretary of State Grimes forms group to push for legalization of medical marijuana in Kentucky in 2018 legislative session-HEALTHYLIVE
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-free-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Usually opposed to statewide mandates on schools, the Kentucky School Boards Association says it...
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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 themselves-HEALTHYLIVE
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 primer-HEALTHYLIVE
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 year-HEALTHYLIVE
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 smokers-HEALTHYLIVE
The Casey Youth Coalition won the health foundation's first Healthy Policy Champion Award for its smoke-free efforts. A grou...
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Kentucky's children improved on several health measures in last year but still lag behind nation; many counties are far behind-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More Kentucky children than ever have health insurance, fewer Kentucky teens are getting pregnan...
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McConnell says he asked HHS secretary-designate to make fighting the opioid epidemic a top priority-HEALTHYLIVE
McConnell and Azar (McConnell office photo) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell met Wednesday with Alex Azar, whom President T...
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Republicans in Congress say tax bill will include repeal of law requiring individuals to have health insurance; critics object-HEALTHYLIVE
Senate Republicans' tax bill will include a repeal of the requirement that almost all Americans obtain health insurance, "a major c...
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Feds change Medicaid rules to allow work requirements for some, paving way for Bevin's revamping of program, including premiums-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Trump administration has announced rules changes for the Medicaid program that allow states t...
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Advocate says keys to passing a smoking ban are a plan, mobilized citizens, young people and a dose of luck-HEALTHYLIVE
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News MADISONVILLE, Ky. – Two big keys to winning passage of a smoke-free ordinance are a systematic plan and ...
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Ad spending on electronic cigarettes drives up use of product, but don't call users 'vapers,' anti-smoking expert says; it's not vapor-HEALTHYLIVE
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News MADISONVILLE, Ky. – Tobacco companies are "normalizing smoking again" through electronic cigar...
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Still without health insurance and not eligible for Medicaid? Chances are 4 in 10 you can get a free policy (with big deductible)-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Premiums are higher for health insurance through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ...
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Hardin County selling Elizabethtown hospital to Baptist Health, which has managed 300-bed facility for 20 years-HEALTHYLIVE
Reinforcing its status as Kentucky's largest hospital chain, Baptist Health will buy Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown for ...
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