Month: March 2022
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Even a mild case of Covid-19 can cause long-term brain damage
Illustration from JAMA Network —– Brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild Covid-19 cases. Researchers at Oxford University in England reported that several months after study participants had Covid-19, they...
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FDA allows several more e-cig products to remain on market; decisions pending on products of several major makers
A newly approved product —– The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products to remain on the market, it said Thursday. “The agency authorized several tobacco-flavored vape pods and...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boosted
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continues to wane in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear cautioned Thursday that the...
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State Senate floor leader says medical marijuana bill is dead
The latest effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in Kentucky is “done for the year,” the majority floor leader of the state Senate told Austin Horn of the Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday. “I...
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After changes to appease county governments, the bill to address ambulance transfer times is raring to go for its final dispatch
Dwayne Oliver and Doug Byers of Lee County’s ambulance service refit one after a run. (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After yet...
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Bill near final passage would delay lab results of cancer or genetic markers from going on electronic health records for 72 hours
Rep. Killian Timoney —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature is nearing final passage of a bill that would give health-care providers a chance to contact patients to...
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Bill Wagner, who headed group of health clinics for disadvantaged in Louisville, wins Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy Award
Wagner, left, with Foundation President and CEO Chandler —– William Wagner, retired CEO of Family Health Centers of Louisville, is the latest winner of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy...
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Almost six months after going into hospital with Covid-19, and a double-lung transplant as a last resort, patient is heading home
Staff members congratulate Victor Gonzales-Villatoro on his discharge at UK. (Photo by Hilary Brown) —– By Hilary Brown University of Kentucky Staff at UK HealthCare gathered Wednesday to celebrate the discharge of patient...
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McConnell, Va. senator poke FDA about lack of action on rules to enforce two-year-old minimum age of 21 to buy tobacco products
Sens. McConnell and Kaine at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center in 2019 (Courier-Journal photo by Pat McDonogh) —– Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine...
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Republicans end state of emergency by overriding veto, say Beshear can get one more month of extra food benefits from feds
State Sen. Donald Douglas —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature has overridden Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a resolution ending the Covid-19 state of...