Month: September 2023
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‘The only way we can take care of others is if we first take care of ourselves,” UK President Eli Capilouto says in a health message
Kentucky Health News Before he became an academic and a university administrator, Eli Cailouto was a public-health dentist. He returned to his roots in his latest campus-wide message as University...
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Ky. children 10-17 have nation’s 2nd highest obesity rate, 19.6%; adult rate of 37.7% is 9th highest, a slight improvement from 2021
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky ties with Wisconsin for the nation’s ninth-highest adult obesity rate, an improvement from second-highest last year, but Kentucky children aged 10-17 still have...
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Answers to questions about the updated Covid-19 vaccines
Updated Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have rolled out to pharmacies. The Food and Drug Administration approved the mRNA vaccines for everyone 6 months and older. The Centers for Disease...
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Governor declares Recovery Month, says he has ‘grave concerns’ about opioid-settlement spending as opioid commission meets
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than 200 people attended an event to mark National Recovery Month on Friday, Sept. 22 in the state Capitol, hearing a message that...
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State doctors’ group calls for more gun control, repeal of Second Amendment ‘sanctuary’ law; passes resolutions on many topics
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Medical Association called mass shooting and gun violence “a public-health crisis” and called for more gun control in one of nine resolutions on...
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The pandemic is over; now Covid-19 is endemic but is still a leading cause of death. When we will stop treating it differently?
As new coronavirus variants make the headlines and Covid-19 hospitalizations are are on the rise, experts told Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post that this is the new normal in a...
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Federal government relaunches free, at-home Covid-19 tests, to be available Monday, Sept. 25, for up to 4 tests per household
Kentucky Health News The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million to make new at-home tests for Covid-19 and relaunch the program that allows Americans to order...
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WellCare of Kentucky, a manager of Medicaid, honors nine Kentucky health heroes with Community Health Champion awards
Kentucky Health News WellCare of Kentucky, one of the companies that manages Medicaid coverage for the state, honored nine people as “community health champions” for their efforts to improve the physical...
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Now is the time to get vaccinated or re-vaccinated for Covid-19, as the weather cools and people spend more time indoors
By Vince Venditto University of Kentucky As the weather gets colder and gatherings move indoors, vaccines remain the safest and most effective way to protect ourselves from Covid-19. On Sept....
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90% of for-profit nursing homes would need more staff to meet proposed rules; 60% of others would, KFF Health News estimates
Kentucky Health News For-profit nursing homes would have to hire more staff to meet proposed federal rules than other nursing homes would, according to an analysis by KFF Health News,...