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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Youth who participate in school sports have less stress and better mental health as young adults, Canadian study finds

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According to new research published in the Journal of Adolescent Health , young people in Canada who participate in team sports in grades 8...

UK receives $3.75 million from CDC to use for colorectal cancer screening in Kentucky River's headwater counties

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The University of Kentucky Rural Cancer Prevention Center has received a $3.75 million, five-year grant renewal from the Centers for Disea...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Kentucky ranks No. 4 in painkiller prescriptions; neighboring states are first, second and third

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Powerful painkillers are a contributing factor in the the rising rate of overdose deaths in the U.S., especially in Kentucky, where officia...
Monday, July 7, 2014

'This kind of sloppy defiance reeks of a Podunk attitude,' Hopkinsville paper says after fair doesn't enforce smoking ban

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It's been a while since we read an editorial as clear, blunt and well-taken as the one the Kentucky New Era ran about the flouting of ...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Drug developed to treat addiction is being abused, so much that clinics have been opened to sell it

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"Suboxone, a popular and highly touted medicine designed to get people off opioids such as painkillers and heroin, is increasingly be...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Nursing-home industry cited as example of how campaign-funding lobbying interests get what they want from General Assembly

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Lobbying groups' political action committees gave almost 40 percent of the money that the campaign committees of the legislature's ...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Russell County school board makes all campuses tobacco-free, but delays implementation for one year

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The Russell County Board of Education has voted to make all the county's school campuses tobacco-free a year from now, "After some...

Fragile X Syndrome, a little known disorder, is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disabilities; U of L has only clinic for it in Ky.

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A common but little-known genetic disorder called Fragile X Syndrome is the leading inherited cause of intellectual disability, autism and ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Study shows if you make whole grains available, kids will eat them

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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Parents who think their children won't eat or like whole-grain products need to put that not...

Beshear issues executive order funding insurance exchange with fees on insurers, originally used to fund high-risk pool

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Gov. Steve Beshear has filed another executive order to continue the state health-insurance exchange he created under federal health refor...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Owensboro plans to extend smoking ban to outdoors

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Owensboro Mayor Ron Payne says he has the votes to pass a smoking ban for "all public spaces, including parks and outdoor dining areas...

Drug use and other behaviors, and poor support systems, make Appalachia ripe for liver-damaging hepatitis C virus

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The hepatitis C virus is a growing problem in Appalachia because of "high rates of injection use, little access to intervention servic...