Month: October 2012
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Covington police chief: New prescription-drug law has unintended consequence of encouraging pain pill addicts to use heroin, commit crimes
Black tar heroin Kentucky’s new prescription drug law may be having its desired effect of taking prescription painkillers off the streets, but could be forcing those very same addicts into...
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State’s hospitals see impressive growth spurt from nearly $1 billion in capital investment
Kentucky’s major hospital systems are going big, making high-profile, technology-forward capital investments across the commonwealth. Josh Shepherd of The Lane Report writes that every sector of the state is part...
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First lady speaks out on behalf of domestic-violence victims; Ky. is one of four states without protection for date-violence victims
First Lady Jane Beshear pointed out the accomplishments of the anti-domestic violence movement in Kentucky this week, and spoke the names of 26 women who had died at the hands...
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Annual report for Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky region shows employee health care costs there will go up about $400 next year
In an continuing effort to move health costs off the shoulders of employers and onto employees, workers in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky will likely pay an average $4,775 out...
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Southern Kentucky circuit judge was probably the first to die in Tenn. from fungal meningitis outbreak stemming from tainted steroids
Judge Eddie C. Lovelace The first person to die in Tennessee from the nine-state meningitis outbreak liked to bad steroids was most likely Kentucky Circuit Judge Eddie C. Lovelace of...
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Four companies will oversee Medicaid coverage in 16-county Louisville region that includes 175,000 Kentuckians
Beginning Jan. 1, four companies will share management of the health care of roughly 175,000 Medicaid patients in the Jefferson County region. This reflects a major, federally mandated change that...
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UK and Purdue researchers find a compound in watermelon that fights ‘bad’ cholesterol and arterial plaque in lab rats
A study from the University of Kentucky and Purdue University showed that mice fed a diet including watermelon juice had lower weight, cholesterol and arterial plaque than a control group....
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Pharmacy student takes time to point out the “Top 10 things you didn’t know your pharmacist could do for you”
Imagine yourself hip deep in pharmacy school. You are sweating bullets over classes in pharmokinetics, chemotherapy and biostats. What, ho! You see the calendar reads October and you realize it’s...
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Soon-to-be published UK study begins to unravel why prescription pain-killing drug Tramadol is habit-forming
In an attempt to get closer to understanding the plague of prescription pain-killer abuse, a study by a team of University of Kentucky researchers has shed new light on the...
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Anthem PPO plan chosen as ‘benchmark’ for state’s Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange
The Kentucky Department of Insurance has recommended that the Anthem Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan serve as the “benchmark” plan for the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, as well as for...