Category: HEALTH BUSINESS
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National settlement would bring Kentucky and its local governments $460 million over 18 years to fight opioid epidemic
Opioid tablets (Getty Images photo) —– Kentucky’s Daniel Cameron and other state attorneys general announced Wednesday a tentative settlement with the nation’s three top drug distributors and drug maker Johnson & Johnson for their...
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UK and other Ky. partners get grant to expand and coordinate prevention of stroke, which kills over 2,000 in state each year
Larry Goldstein, MD, FAAN, FANA, FAHA —– The University of Kentucky, the state Department for Public Health, the University of Louisville and other state partners have been awarded a prestigious grant to expand and...
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Group supports women of color seeking advanced health degrees
By Jenny Wells-Golden University of Kentucky Tyona Golden and Johnnetta Burns came to the University of Kentucky as freshmen in 2013. As two longtime friends from the South Side of Chicago, they...
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Baptist to share Madisonville hospital with Deaconess, which now also has hospitals in Henderson and Morganfield
Baptist Health Madisonville —– Starting Sept. 1, the hospital in Madisonville will be jointly operated by Baptist Health, which has owned it for nine years, and Deaconess Health System Inc. of Evansville, which...
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People in recovery, and people trying to help them, talk about it at Chamber’s annual meeting designed to help employers help, too
Keeneland cook Krystal Grimes talked about her recovery. (Photographs by Sawyer Coffey, Kentucky Chamber of Commerce) —– By Jacqueline Pitts The Bottom Line, Ky. Chamber of Commerce Kentuckians who are in...
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Kentucky ranks low in vaccinations of nursing-home employees
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge —– Employees providing care at Kentucky nursing homes are among the least likely in...
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KET program, airing Monday night and online afterward, explores how to die a better death, with a focus on palliative care
The World Health Organization describes palliative care as “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and...
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Beshear says Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare should end challenges to law that let his father expand Medicaid in Kentucky
A slide Beshear displayed at his press conference By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection...
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UK seeks children under 12 to be part of Covid-19 vaccine trial
The University of Kentucky is seeking children from six months through 11 years old to participate in a federally funded clinical trial of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus. UK is one of 90 sites...
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Firm that has 30 addiction-treatment centers in Kentucky has its largest one on a former college campus near Springfield
Joseph Bentley got his GED degree at Crown Recovery and now helps others do it. (Photo by Jonathon Gregg, Spectrum News) —– Addiction Recovery Care has been serving patients since on the former...