Month: March 2016
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Kenton County’s approval of a needle exchange inches Northern Kentucky, hit the hardest by heroin, toward getting one
The Kenton County Fiscal Court unanimously approved a mobile needle exchange program March 29, which moves the City of Covington’s needle exchange program one step closer to fruition, Terry DeMio...
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Officials hope reduction in Ky. colon cancer deaths via screening can be replicated with lung cancer, in which state is No. 1
Health officials in Kentucky, especially in the eastern part of the state, hope to increase lung-cancer screenings by following a successful colon-cancer screening initiative, Jackie Judd reports for PBS NewsHour....
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Ky. Republicans like Indiana Medicaid plan, but head of Medicaid directors’ group says Ind. isn’t far enough along to be a model
Gov. Matt Bevin and other Republicans have said they want to make Kentucky’s version of Medicaid look like Indiana’s, but a leading Medicaid official says that Indiana’s program hasn’t proven...
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Survey of Cincy-area students, including some in Kenton County, finds pot and vaping more popular than cigs; drug use down
Students in Greater Cincinnati, including Northern Kentucky, are more likely to use marijuana and electronic vapor products than cigarettes, according to a drug-use survey of students in the region. Graph...
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Boyd, Clark counties approve needle exchanges; Boyd’s is a limited, one-for one; Covington’s proposed limits draw objections
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Clark and Boyd counties are the ninth and 10th Kentucky counties to approve a needle-exchange program, and Madison and Anderson counties are talking about it....
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At top legislative Republican’s invitation, Democrats embrace Obamacare, or at least Kynect and Beshear’s Medicaid expansion
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With a verve for Obamacare most had not publicly demonstrated, state House Democrats passed bills March 22 to preserve the Kynect health insurance exchange...
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Full House has Senate bill to regulate how druggists dispense ‘biosimilar’ medication that hasn’t even been approved by FDA
Update: SB 134 passed the state House 96-0 March 23 with a floor amendment that allows communication by fax, telephone, electronic transmissions or other prevailing means by the pharmacist to the provider to...
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Legal clinic for cancer patients, families and caregivers in Louisville April 13 is free, but requests RSVP if you plan to attend
A free legal clinic for people facing cancer, and their families and caregivers, will be held in Louisville April 13. The Kentucky Cancer Program at the University of Louisville, the...
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Republicans accuse Beshear of holding down failed co-op’s premiums to make Obamacare look good; he denies the charge
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Did Kentucky’s government-sponsored insurance company fail because then-Gov. Steve Beshear and federal officials kept its rates artificially low to make Beshear’s embrace of federal...
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Judge denies Bevin’s bid to close Lexington abortion provider, citing difficulty that would create for Eastern Ky. women
UPDATE, June 15: A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals reversed the ruling. A Lexington judge has rejected Gov. Matt Bevin’s request to close the city’s only abortion...