Day: July 9, 2013
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Prescription drugs killing more women than ever; Kentucky ties for fifth for its high percentage of deaths
The ongoing national epidemic of addiction to prescription painkillers is spreading more quickly among women, and it is killing more women than ever before. Kentucky ties Utah for the fifth...
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AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine and infectious-disease specialist in Lexington and the new president of...