Author: Al Cross
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is updating its directory of health coalitions; deadline to submit information is April 15
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is updating its directory of local health coalitions and is asking groups that work to improve health in their communities to provide their contact information online...
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Louisville health department offers fentanyl strips to safeguard drug users; fentanyl responsible for more than half of 2017 ODs
As a way to protect drug users from deadly fentanyl, Louisville’s health department has started passing out test strips, Beth Warren reports for the Louisville Courier Journal. Fentanyl was initially added to heroin,...
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Resolution to require study of response to hepatitis A outbreak, and recommendations to avoid a repeat, failed in the legislature
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services won’t have to conduct a study of its response to the hepatitis A outbreak that has killed at least 52 in the state and...
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Drug makers’ payments to doctors may influence their choice of what drugs to prescribe, and that can cost patients real money
By Trudy LiebermanRural Health News Service Peggy, an Indiana woman and reader of this column, recently sent me a lengthy email about her 94-year-old mother who is rapidly...
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State health department funds mobile syringe exchange for Laurel, Whitley, Knox, Clay and Jackson counties
Five Eastern Kentucky counties will soon have a mobile syringe exchange to minimize the spread of infectious diseases and to help get people who are addicted to drugs into treatment,...
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20 test positive for E.coli and six of them are hospitalized, mostly in Central Kentucky; state health department searching for source
Twenty Kentuckians have tested positive for an infection caused by a strain of E. coli bacteria, and public health officials say they have not yet identified the source of the outbreak, the...
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Bill to require ‘reasonable accommodations’ to pregnant women at work passes on last day of legislative session
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill that allows pregnant women “reasonable accommodations” while at work, and supports breastfeeding, passed on the last day of the...
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Statewide tobacco-free-schools bill finally passes, and the governor is expected to sign it into law, effective July 1, 2020
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A bill to ban the use of tobacco products in all Kentucky public schools and events finally passed on the last...
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Health departments, regional mental-health centers, other entities get a pension fix, but at a cost to some employees’ pensions
Teachers filled the Senate gallery. (Herald-Leader photo by Matt Goins) —– As it closed up shop, the legislature gave local health departments, regional mental-health centers and other government-related agencies another reprieve...
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Judge again blocks state’s Medicaid plan with work requirements for many, says likewise for similar plan already in effect in Ark.
The order vacating federal approval of Kentucky’s plan —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A federal judge in Washington has again blocked Gov. Matt Bevin’s attempts to require many...