Author: Al Cross
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Court of Appeals orders Lexington abortion clinic closed for now
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Reversing a lower court’s ruling Wednesday, the Kentucky Court of Appeals said Lexington’s only location for legal abortions must stop performing them pending a lawsuit by the...
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Forrest W. Calico, national leader in rural health care, dies at 75
Forrest W. Calico Dr. Forrest W. Calico, a nationally recognized expert on rural health-care quality, died Monday at his home near Crab Orchard “after striving against multiple myeloma for several...
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Potent fentanyl, mixed with heroin, drives 14.7 percent increase in fatal drug overdoses in Kentucky from 2014 to 2015
The number of drug-overdose fatalities in Kentucky rose almost 15 percent in 2015, driven by a 247 percent jump in deaths involving fentanyl, a highly potent opioid that some traffickers...
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Wellness coalition in Perry County, where life expectancy is state’s lowest, gets funding from Foundation for a Healthy Ky.
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has funded the Perry County Wellness Coalition’s three-year plan to encourage fitness and better nutrition in school-age children, “Kids on the Move!” The wellness...
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Doctors trying to reverse course on opioid prescriptions can find it difficult because of addiction, shortage of good alternatives
The epidemic of opioid overdoses, 60 percent of which are blamed on abuse or misuse, “is changing prescribing habits, but there’s still a lack of other pain medications, access to...
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UK pays big to settle a health-care debacle but keeps almost all details under wraps; Herald-Leader says trustees should worry
“The University of Kentucky has spent more than $5 million in the last year to fix federal billing issues involving a Hazard cardiology practice it acquired three years ago, but...
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Ashland hospital expands into wellness and prevention programs
By Judi Kanne Kentucky Health News Hospitals’ basic business is taking care of the sick and injured, not keeping people from getting sick. But more and more of them are...
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Kentuckians agree regionally on tobacco controls; poll shows wide differences among regions in impact of drug abuse
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In a state that once had more tobacco farms than any other, Kentuckians in all regions of the state support policies that discourage use...
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CDC boss Tom Frieden, at SOAR, gives examples of how communities can improve health, such as smoking bans
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Speaking to a region with some of the nation’s poorest health, the top federal public-health official gave examples of how individual...
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KET programs focus on oral health, ‘just as critical to the well-being of Kentuckians’ as problems that have a higher profile
Kentucky Educational Television has turned its attention to oral health, which it says is “just as critical to the well-being of Kentuckians” as the state’s “alarmingly high rates of cancer,...