Month: January 2024
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Impact of cannabis use during pregnancy is the focus of UK Cannabis Center’s next online seminar, to be held Feb. 26
The University of Kentucky Cannabis Center is sponsoring an online seminar titled “Cannabis Use During Pregnancy: Research from Policy to Practice” on Feb. 26. The seminar will be held via...
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Kentucky leads the nation in use of new class of drugs that fight diabetes and obesity; more than 2% of Kentuckians use them
Kentucky Health New Kentucky has the nation’s highest rate of dispensed prescriptions for a new class of diabetes and obesity medications, according to the analytics company PurpleLab and published by...
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Senate passes bill to cut number of Medicaid managed-care firms from 6 to 3
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The nearly 1.6 million Kentuckians with managed-care Medicaid health coverage would choose from three companies next year instead of the current six, under a...
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Bipartisan ‘momnibus’ bill aims to improve health of mothers, kids
Kentucky Health News Legislators are accustomed to seeing “omnibus” bills that deal with many subjects, sometimes related, sometimes not. Now the Kentucky General Assembly has a “momnibus” bill intended to...
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CHI St. Joseph Health to be new satellite site of nursing school
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Lincoln Memorial University of Harrogate, Tenn., near Kentucky’s southeastern corner, will launch a nursing-education site with CHI Saint Joseph Health in Lexington later in 2024,...
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After four months of legal sports gambling, Kentucky counselors and some bettors are concerned about ease of online wagering
By John McGary WEKU News On Sept. 7, in addition to slot machines and live horse racing, The Red Mile in Lexington had something new to offer: legalized gambling on...
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This looks like the year for an epidemic of measles, the most contagious disease, which can be deadly but is very preventable
By Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist Yesterday I got a Google news alert: “Measles.” Yes, measles. In the 21st century. At the height of winter. Measles typically spreads in spring....
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Seven mobile crisis-response grants allow ‘better treatment, a lot quicker’ for people undergoing mental-health crises
Kentucky Health News Seven local-government organizations are getting grants to start community crisis co-response programs, which form partnerships between behavioral-health professionals, law enforcement or other first responders and local governments...
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First Opioid Abatement Settlement Commission meeting under new leader draws big crowd, largely to support ibogaine study
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 130 people attended the first Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission meeting under the group’s new executive director, by all indications in support of the...
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State reports two Kentucky children have died, one from flu and one from Covid-19, but hospital visits show first decline in months
As the state reported the first two deaths of children from Covid-19 and influenza, Kentucky saw the first drops in emergency-room visits and hospital admissions for the diseases in more...