Category: FEATURED
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How health-care providers can help prevent overdoses: 4 steps, plus culture change to make intervention routine, lessen stigma
By Drs. Scott E. Hadland and Evan Wood; and Eri D. Solomon Opinion article published in JAMA Internal Medicine North America is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic now driven by illicitly...
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Legislature passes bill to keep Kentuckians’ disabilities from being sole cause of discrimination in allocating organs for transplant
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ensure that Kentuckians with disabilities are not discriminated against when being considered for an organ transplant has passed both houses of...
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Bill to require insurers to cover biomarker testing goes to Beshear
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to require private and public insurance plans in Kentucky to cover biomarker testing for cancer and screenings for genetic-based reactions to drugs...
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New coronavirus cases dropped in Ky. last week but Covid-19 deaths increased; N.Y. Times ranks new-case rate 2nd in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported a 46 percent drop in new coronavirus cases last week, but its rate of new infections remained among the highest in the...
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Study for hospital association says 38% of Ky. hospitals at risk of closure due to losses; bill would have Medicaid pay for outpatients
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Citing “inflation, record-high operating costs, and lower volumes,” a new report prepared for the Kentucky Hospital Association says 38% of Kentucky’s hospitals are at risk...
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House sends Senate a bill to regulate Delta-8 THC as Senate prepares to give medical-marijuana bill its first hearing and vote
By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern After a court decision last year legalized an intoxicating compound derived from hemp, a bill to regulate Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol sped through the state House on...
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Bill to let advanced-practice registered nurses prescribe controlled substances on their own after four years passes, at long last
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a path for Kentucky’s advanced-practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances independently has finally passed and is on its way...
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If you smoke pot, lay off before surgery; you could wake up early
Regular users of marijuana may need up to three times more anesthetic to keep them unconscious during surgical procedures, so they need to tell surgical personnel about it, say doctors...
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With pandemic benefits long gone, and inflation pushing up food prices, lines for free food can stretch for a mile in Hazel Green
HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly recalled receiving the letter announcing that...
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FDA proposes new requirements for makers of tobacco products aimed at minimizing contamination, protecting public health
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing new rules that are aimed at minimizing contamination of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, and that would...