Category: DRUGS
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Study expands access to naloxone, which blocks drug overdose
By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Thursday, Aug. 31, marks International Overdose Awareness Day, a time when attention is directed toward raising awareness about opioid overdose and ways to reverse...
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Amid misinformation, few adults put significant trust in any health institution or media to be accurate about health topics, poll finds
By Darius Tahir KFF Health News Around 3 in 10 Americans still believe ivermectin, a dewormer for animals, is an effective treatment for Covid-19. And few of them place significant...
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More than 1/3 of U.S. heart-attack and stroke survivors don’t take aspirin to prevent a second one, 40 years after it was first advised
People who have experienced a heart attack or stroke have prevented another one from happening by taking a daily aspirin. But fewer than half of heart attack or stroke victims...
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Demon Copperhead author and Kentucky native Barbara Kingsolver talks about the opioid epidemic and Appalachia’s difficulty with it
Barbara Kingsolver says she intended her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead to be her “great Appalachian novel” that told the story of how the opioid epidemic has ravaged the region, and its...
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Attorney general files lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers, manufacturers over alleged insulin pricing scheme
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers over an alleged insulin pricing scheme. The lawsuit...
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UK HealthCare joins several other Kentucky hospital systems and will no longer require employees to get a Covid-19 vaccination
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Federal rules requiring Covid-19 vaccinations in health care settings were lifted in early June, and while several of the larger Kentucky hospital systems soon...
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Mobile unit provides addiction recovery, other medical services in Glasgow, Leitchfield, Hodgenville, Bardstown and Lebanon
A drug-recovery company based in Glasgow is using a mobile health-care unit and partnerships with businesses to bring an array of health services to people in the area, Michael Crimmins...
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Covid-19 vaccines: What parents need to know now
The Covid-19 pandemic is no longer a national emergency, but the virus that caused it isn’t gone—and neither is the risk of getting the disease, says Children’s Hospital Los Angeles....
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U.S. Senate panel OKs bill to rein in pharmacy benefit managers; Kentucky pharmacist applauds similar efforts by House members
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News At least one Kentucky pharmacist is applauding the latest efforts to rein in pharmacy benefit managers. PBMs are middlemen that negotiate drug prices with...
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KET panel applauded Kentucky’s 5% drop in overdose deaths in 2022, but cited new challenges and remaining difficulties
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A panel of survivors, drug-recovery experts and providers lauded Kentucky’s 5 percent reduction in drug-overdose deaths between 2021 and 2022 on a Kentucky Educational...