Day: June 26, 2023
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Kentucky farmers deal with uncontrollable stressors; there’s a mental-health coalition that helps them
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern This story discusses suicide and mental health among farmers. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide...
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Kentucky keeps losing doctors when it needs more of them; in the 2022 fiscal year it had only seven for every eight it had in 2018
Kentucky Health News Kentucky is losing physicians at a time when it needs many more of them, the top executive of the Kentucky Medical Association told a legislative committee Wednesday....
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Nominations sought by Aug. 31 for Dan Martin Award, which recognizes a lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is seeking nominations for the 2022 Dan Martin Award, which honors an individual’s lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky. The award is named for...
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Electronic cigarette sales are way up, and so are calls to poison-control centers about children’s exposure to the devices
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Electronic cigarette sales are up, and so are calls to poison control centers, according to two new reports from the Centers for Disease Control...
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E-cigarettes get bigger and badder: Sales up rose 47% in last 3 years, nicotine content up 76% in last 5; FDA struggles to regulate
By Liz Szabo KFF Health News When the Food and Drug Administration first asserted the authority to regulate electronic cigarettes in 2016, many people assumed the agency would quickly get...
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Herald-Leader digs into idea of using a psychedelic drug to treat opioid-use disorder, talks to a Ky. woman about her use of it
The head of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission has suggested using up to $42 million of the more than $900 million in settlement funds with drug companies to invest...
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Abortion providers drop, at least for now, challenge to state’s anti-abortion laws after failing to find a patient to be the plaintiff
Kentucky’s two abortion clinics are dropping a legal challenge to the state’s near-total abortion ban, citing the state Supreme Court’s decision this year that they lacked standing to sue on...