Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prevention. Show all posts
Tips for diabetics to stay healthy during the holiday season
Conference focuses attention on importance of patient- and family-centered care, health education, communication
Medicare plans to pay for lung-cancer screening, a boon to Ky.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plan to start paying for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans for people at high ris...
Millions of children on Medicaid are missing free check-ups; Kentucky is a little below the national average
Millions of low-income children across the country aren't getting free preventive exams and screenings guaranteed by Medicaid, and some ...
Medicaid expansion boosts preventive care
Raw milk suspected as cause of bacterial infections among four children in Hardin County and one in Oldham County
Five children in the Louisville region were recently hospitalized with E. coli bacterial infections, and all had consumed unpasteurized mil...
All adults over 45 should be screened for diabetes every three years, but only half are, and the poor are less likely to do so
Only about half of U.S. adults that the American Diabetes Association recommends to be screened for diabetes are actually being screened, a...
Researchers say aggressively treating pre-diabetes could stop or delay future diabetic complications
Treating pre-diabetes as if it is diabetes could delay or prevent future related health complications, according to doctors from three leadi...
Free, day-long forum Sept. 16 in Louisville will explore doing health care differently; registration almost full
A free one-day conference will be held Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Louisville to explore policy opportunities and challenges related to doing heal...
If you've had a stroke, learning how take your pulse and recognize an irregular heart beat could prevent second stroke
