Medicaid managed-care firm WellCare funds scholarships to train more doctors, psychiatrists and advanced-practice nurses in E.Ky.

WellCare of Kentucky is providing $180,000 for two new University of Kentucky scholarship programs aimed at increasing the number of prima...

Just one alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, exercise lowers risk

Drinking just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day increases breast cancer risk, finds a major new report by the American Instit...

Recommended daily protein intake too low for the elderly

You can find the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) on the nutrition labels of all your processed food. Food manufacturers are obliged to l...

Rethinking exercise: Replace punishing workouts with movement that makes you happy

Many women start fitness programs to lose weight, and when they don't, they feel like failures and stop exercising. And then, months or ...

Probiotics may relieve symptoms of depression

Probiotics may relieve symptoms of depression, as well as help gastrointestinal upset, research from McMaster University has found. In a stu...

No benefit from statin for primary cardiovascular prevention in older adults

Analysis of data from older adults who participated in a clinical trial showed no benefit of a statin for all-cause mortality or coronary he...

Moderate drinking may not ward off heart disease

Many people believe that having a glass of wine with dinner--or moderately drinking any kind of alcohol--will protect them from heart diseas...