Month: March 2017
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Big drug bill heads to governor’s desk; has harsher penalties and limits most prescriptions for acute pain to 3 days
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill that would limit most painkiller prescriptions to a three-day supply for acute pain, and change how synthetic-opioid traffickers are prosecuted, flew through...
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Without dissent, General Assembly overrides governor’s veto of bill allowing courts to require outpatient mental-health treatment
FRANKFORT, Ky. – Cheers of celebration rang in both the Senate and House chambers as lawmakers overrode Gov. Matt Bevin’s veto of a bill meant to end the revolving door...
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Kentucky Health Outcomes and Factors
By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News The premature death rate is getting worse in 44 of Kentucky’s 120 counties and improving in 12 counties, according to a health rankings report released...
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County Health Rankings show troubling trend of more premature deaths, contrasting trends among some counties
By Danielle Ray Kentucky Health News The premature death rate is getting worse in 44 of Kentucky’s 120 counties and improving in 12 counties, according to a health rankings report released...
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More than half of Kentuckians have a gun in the house,15% are loaded and unlocked; among those with children, 12%
More than half of Kentucky adults have a firearm in the home and 15 percent of those guns are loaded and unlocked, according to a the latest Kentucky Health Issues...
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How Medicaid came to cover 1 in 3 people in Ky., 1 in 5 in U.S., and how it could be changed despite health bill’s failure
Medicaid is the main reason many more people have health insurance, especially in Kentucky.These New York Times maps are interactive, with county data. For the interactives, click here. The failure...
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Colorectal cancer has declined, except in people under 30; overall, it’s more common in Kentucky than in any other state
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Colorectal cancer has become less common since the mid-1980s, but has been increasing steadily in people younger than 50, according to a recent American...
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Health bill seems dead for this year, but changes are likely anyway in Medicaid and perhaps in private, subsidized insurance
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News What does the failure of the bill to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” mean for...
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59 percent of Ky. adults have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, linked to physical and mental health issues
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation illustration By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Many health-care providers have started looking at adverse childhood experiences when assessing their patients’ poor health because ACEs have...
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Louisville’s Our Lady of Peace opens first retail pharmacist-operated, long-acting injection clinic; will mostly treat opioid abuse
Insider Louisville photo Kentucky is again leading the nation in finding ways to combat the...