Author: Heather Close
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Baptist settles dispute with Humana but not United and WellCare
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Baptist Health and Humana have ended a months-long standoff over Kentuckians with health coverage through Medicare Advantage and commercial insurance plans, the companies said Thursday,...
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Physician who treats only seniors endorses CDC recommendation that everyone over 65 should get a Covid-19 booster this spring
By Laurie Archbald-Pannone Associate professor of medicine and geriatrics, University of Virginia In my mind, the spring season will always be associated with Covid-19. In spring 2020, the federal government...
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Website that helps Kentuckians find addiction treatment now helps them find naloxone, the drug that reverses opioid overdoses
Kentucky Health News The state’s FindHelpNowKy.org website, which helps Kentuckians find addiction treatment, now also can help them find places to get naloxone, which reverses opioid overdose. The website, which...
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If you are diagnosed with cancer and you smoke, that’s one more reason to stop, says UK doctor who co-chaired national survey
Smokers who have cancer have a better chance of overcoming the disease if they stop smoking, but not all cancer-treatment programs do a good job of encouraging patients to quit,...
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Bill aimed at curbing Kentucky’s youth ‘vaping epidemic’ passes House; Ky. Youth Advocates calls on Senate to make it stronger
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to curb what its sponsor called the youth “vaping epidemic” in Kentucky passed the state House on Monday and is now in...
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State health chief says measles risk stems from pandemic’s anti-vaccine ‘ideologies’; discusses how to lose weight, need for sleep
This story has been updated. By Al Cross Kentucky Health News In a wide-ranging TV interview, state Health Commissioner Steven Stack warned Kentuckians that not enough of them are vaccinated...
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Emergency-room visits for respiratory illness keep declining, but flu activity remains elevated, and hospital admissions for it are up
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s influenza levels remain elevated and hospitalizations for respiratory illness remain high, even though emergency-department visits for respiratory illness have stayed on a rough...
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State and federal lawmakers say they’re still trying to rein in health-insurance middlemen, called pharmacy-benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A day after Gov. Andy Beshear talked at a White House roundtable about Kentucky’s moving to one pharmacy-benefit manager for Medicaid, First District U.S....
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House passes ‘Momnibus’ bill with measures for maternal health
By Isabella Sephaban Kentucky Lantern A maternal-health bill nicknamed “Momnibus’ was unanimously approved by the Kentucky House Tuesday after about 20 minutes of discussion. The bipartisan House Bill 10 came out...
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On 4th anniversary of Ky.’s first Covid-19 case, Beshear says it’s a time ‘to say that we’re going to try to do better and better . . . ‘
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Four years after the day that Kentucky confirmed its first official case of Covid-19, Kandie Adkinson rang a singular bell in the state Capitol rotunda,...