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E-cigarette use among nation’s youth up 39% from last year; Fayette County school board votes to sue e-cig companies
National Youth Tobacco Survey graphic —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Teenagers’ use of electronic cigarettes continues to surge, increasing to more than 5 million in 2019 from 3.6...
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Researchers find mental health of parents matters when it comes to child obesity; study also examined role of income and rurality
As more of the nation’s children become overweight or obese, especially in rural areas, researchers are beginning to look beyond some of the known causes, like inactivity and a poor diet,...
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Pharmacies could help get more teens vaccinated for a virus that causes sex-related cancers, in which Kentucky leads the nation
Alabama Department of Public Health —– There’s a vaccine for a virus that causes sex-related cancer, but rural teens are less likely to get it or know about it. Rural pharmacies could...
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Bullitt County schools to sue Juul, alleging it created e-cigarette epidemic that has cost schools money and instructional time
Bullitt Central High School Principal Joe Pat Lee watches students arrive on opening day. (BCPS photo) —– The Bullitt County school board voted Nov. 25 to sue Juul Labs and other manufacturers of...
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Juul Labs used research that tobacco-cigarette manufacturers wanted to use to get young people to become addicted to nicotine
In this screenshot of an April 2016 video, recently removed from YouTube, a co-founder of Juul Labs, James Monsees, presents an R.J. Reynolds research memo (YouTube image via Los Angeles Times) —– In developing...
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Kentucky state senator taken aback by ‘shoutfest’ in White House between electronic-cigarette interests and their foes
State Sen. Julie Raque Adams speaks in the White House Nov. 22 as President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar listen. (Image from White House video, via WDRB-TV)...
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Substance abuse drives decrease in life expectancy in U.S., Ky.
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Americans are dying younger, and Kentucky is a big part of that. The most basic measurement of a population’s health, life expectancy at birth,...
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New state Medicaid contracts drop Passport and Anthem, which say they will appeal; top Beshear aide voices concern
On its way out, the administration of Republican Gov. Matt Bevin has given five health-insurance companies new, five-year deals to manage the care of Kentuckians on Medicaid — and dropped...
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Louisville newspaper tracks huge, powerful and violent drug cartel’s invasion of small towns in Kentucky and other states
Courier Journal illustration shows farm worker who oversaw flow of $30 million in drugs into Kentucky. —– The tentacles of a huge, powerful and violent drug cartel reach from Mexico...
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Report says Kentucky Medicaid could save nearly $240 million by cutting middlemen between drug makers and pharmacists
Kentucky’s Medicaid program could save nearly $240 million a year by eliminating pharmacy benefit managers and returning to its old “fee for service” system of reimbursing pharmacists for each prescription,...