Month: June 2024
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Huge grant fails to reduce ODs by 40%; does show a 9% drop over four states, saving an estimated 483 lives, but few in Ky.
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A four-state, $350 million research grant that included Kentucky fell far short of its goal of reducing opioid overdose deaths by 40% over four...
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Coleman details $12 million in opioid grants, says his opposition to syringe exchanges is greater if they don’t have one-to-one rule
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Russell Coleman issued details Thursday of more than $12 million in grants from the state’s opioid settlements for prevention, enforcement, treatment and...
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Letcher County backs off its plan to spend $125,000 in opioid-settlement money on an experimental therapy by Isaiah House
By Sam Adams The Mountain Eagle The Letcher County Fiscal Court has reversed itself — at least for now — on whether it will give $125,000 of its opioid settlement...
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Cannabis users are at increased risk of severe Covid, study finds
Kentucky Health News Use of cannabis, commonly called marijuana, is linked to an increased risk of serious illness for those with Covid-19. So says a study published in the American...
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Fewer dying from overdoses, but advocates say Kentucky needs more people mentoring others through addiction and recovery
By Sylvia Goodman Louisville Public Media Shawn Nutter walks through The Healing Place’s men’s facility in Louisville’s Russell neighborhood. He just completed the months-long recovery program, and now, Nutter’s working...
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Curious about new, popular weight-loss drugs? Here’s a lowdown
Editor’s note: At the end of 2023 Kentucky led the nation in the percentage of state residents, 2.1%, who had received the new class of diabetes and weight-loss drugs. ...
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Surgeon general wants health warnings on social-media platforms, which he blames for mental illnesses among youth
By Michlle Chapman Associated Press The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms and their effects on young people’s lives, similar to...
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Learning CPR for children and infants could help save a little life
By Dr. Callie L. Rzasa University of Kentucky More than 23,000 children in the United States suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest annually. Although the reported number of infant out-of-hospital cardiac...
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Men’s Health Month is a reminder to schedule preventive screenings
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Men’s Health Month in June is a reminder for men to think about their health and consider making some screening appointments that could lengthen,...
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Independent pharmacists start ads asking Congress for relief from pharmacy benefit managers, ask Supreme Court to hear a case
Kentucky Health News Independent community pharmacists have begun an advertising campaign to get Congress to rein in pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen between drug and health-insurance companies. They are also...