Author: Melissa Patrick
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Kenton County embraces its once-controversial smoking ban as chances of a statewide ban have dimmed
Five years after Kenton County’s smoking ban took effect over great opposition, the county has embraced it, Scott Wartman reports for the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I’m a smoker, but I’m glad...
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Bevin administration is working to fix Benefind’s technical glitches; 51,000 Kynect clients blocked from working with Kynectors
Update: 4/8/16 This story has been updated with comments from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On Feb. 29, Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration...
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10 common misconceptions about cancer and the environment
With the advent of the internet, people are swamped with information about cancer and some of it is not based on “sound scientific evidence” or is “at best, anecdotal,” which...
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Struggling Tenn. hospital takes care of Kentuckians, who get better care than Tennesseans thanks to expanded Medicaid
Jellico Community Hospital, just across the Kentucky border in Tennessee along Interstate 75, was taken over by Community Hospital Corp. last May, but that’s not a guarantee it will survive, especially since...
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Legislature’s many health bills include some with life-saving potential, better prevention, greater access and help for children
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One paragraph in this story was incorrect and has been stricken. FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky legislators have all but ended their regular session without...
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U of L dental school’s general-dentistry and oral-medicine chair elected president of American Academy of Oral Medicine
Wendy S. Hupp Wendy S. Hupp, associate professor and interim chair of the Department of General Dentistry and Oral Medicine of the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, will be...
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Bevin gets bill to create third-party appeals process for denied Medicaid claims, which sponsor says are all too common
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create an independent process for Kentucky health-care providers to appeal claims denied by Medicaid managed-care organizations is on its way to...
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Adults 62-85 are often taking combinations of drug or dietary supplements that could be deadly; risk nearly doubled in 5 years
Update: 4/4/16, This story has been updated to reflect that the study says the number of adults using at least five prescription drugs a day has increased and not the...
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Obama joins Rogers at National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit, says it’s time to focus on treatment over incarceration
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The fifth annual national summit on prescription drug abuse, started by U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, was the largest, broadest and highest-profile yet....
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Kenton County’s approval of a needle exchange inches Northern Kentucky, hit the hardest by heroin, toward getting one
The Kenton County Fiscal Court unanimously approved a mobile needle exchange program March 29, which moves the City of Covington’s needle exchange program one step closer to fruition, Terry DeMio...