Day: April 10, 2024
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State’s high maternal-death rate gets study; pregnancy-related deaths mostly from violence, substance use, anxiety, depression
By Lindsay Travis University of Kentucky A team of health-care providers and researchers at the University of Kentucky is working with community and government leaders across the state to address...
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Raising Ky.’s health status has ‘a ways to go,’ hospital chief says; Chandler says people need to demand change in health policies
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A discussion on health care at the April 4 Lexington Forum led to information about the many challenges Kentucky faces when it comes to...
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Legislature, Beshear pass law to protect independent pharmacies in Kentucky from commercial pharmacy benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to address an unfair playing field between commercial pharmacy-benefit managers and independent pharmacists has been signed into law and will take effect...
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Respiratory-virus activity ticks up a bit, but hospital admissions fall; flu remains driver for respiratory admissions, ER visits in Ky.
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department for Public Health says respiratory virus activity ticked up a bit in Kentucky in the last week of March, but remained...
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UK researcher wins $3.1 million grant to study proteins that go haywire and lead to dementia; one goal is early treatment of it
By Hilary Smith University of Kentucky A University of Kentucky professor has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to continue her research that she thinks...