Author: Al Cross
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McConnell files bill to raise legal age to buy tobacco products to 21, with some provisions Kentucky health advocates wanted
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks tobacco. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell today introduced his promised bill to raise to...
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Study suggests kids with hypertension more likely to have heart disease as adults; Ky. teens 3rd in U.S. in top risk factor, obesity
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Just like adults, children can have high blood pressure. The only way to know is to check for it, and it’s important because children...
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Most Ky. hospitals got an average patient safety score, one failed; low scoring hospitals have increased risk of “avoidable death”
The Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Grade website is easy to use and offers information on 52 Kentucky hospitals. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For the second grading period...
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Infection-control activist calls for timely outbreak notifications, comprehensive tracking, aggressive containment and vaccines
OPINION By Dr. Kevin Kavanagh I live in Kentucky, a state with the nation’s largest hepatitis A outbreak, an emerging measles outbreak and a governor who said he exposed his...
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Hepatitis outbreak is declining in Ky., but we are still finding more in a week than we once got in a year; 57 have died from it in state
The good news about hepatitis in Kentucky is that the number of hepatitis A cases is dropping. The bad news is that there are still as many cases each week...
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UK College of Public Health researchers start the Journal of Appalachian Health, free to all, free to share
Researchers in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentuckyhave started the Journal of Appalachian Health, an online, peer-reviewed journal, saying their overall objective “is to improve the health status of the...
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Ky. health policy forum Sept. 23 will focus on medical marijuana, a topic that is sure to come up again in the next legislative session
National Conference of State Legislatures map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky’s annual policy forum this fall will be dedicated to the topic...
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Ky. law to ban the most common method of second-trimester abortion struck down; Bevin administration will appeal decision
District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. —– A federal judge has struck down a 2018 Kentucky law banning the most common method of second-trimester abortion. The law would prohibit physicians...
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Addict who writes a column says addicts are best helped by recovering addicts, with help of families, communities, politicians
By Phillip Lee As a recovering addict, I know first-hand the devastation and agony families face all across the United States. I know many think it is of our own...
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Ky., 43 other states sue generic drug makers, alleging price fixing; Beshear sues 3 top insulin manufacturers, making similar claim
Kentucky is among 44 states that filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court in Connecticut, accusing 20 manufacturers of generic drugs of fixing prices and suppressing competition. Meanwhile, Attorney General...