Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Methamphetamine returns to Appalachian Kentucky, in a more deadly form, and it’s causing fear and division in communities
Dakota Scott, with her two-week-old daughter, fights meth addiction at Karen’s Place Maternity Center in Ashland, a facility for women in addiction recovery (Photo by Hilary Swift for The New York...
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Beshear signs more than 35 bills amid pandemic, many related to health care; physician assistants get limited prescribing power
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky legislature continues to pass bills despite Gov. Andy Beshear’s plea that it just pass a budget and anything related to the coronavirus,...
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As big surge in covid-19 cases begins, along with warm weather, Beshear warns gatherings will kill Kentuckians; vows enforcement
Gov. Andy Beshear spoke in his daily press conference as information sources were displayed. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As he reported a big surge in daily cases...
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Kentucky reports 92 new cases, by far the most yet in one day; ‘We are seeing at least the start of our surge,’ Beshear says
The state Capitol and Executive Mansion are lit green on nights after a covid-19 death is reported in Kentucky. One was reported Saturday after the daily press conference. (Alex Slitz, Lexington...
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3 more Ky. deaths from covid-19, first day with more than one; Trump invokes Defense Production Act to get more ventilators; Beshear says don’t travel to Tennessee unless you must
Concepts by Jason and Brooke Ison and @tizbitz, design by @SinclairArt for KyforKy.com —– As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be...
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Massie, long an outlier, is a House pariah after forcing members to gather, against public-health advice, to pass virus-relief bill
Rep. Thomas Massie spoke Friday. (Associated Press photo) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Thomas Massie, the congressman from Kentucky’s Fourth District, has long been at the limits of elective...
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Legislature passes bill to support state response to covid-19; includes many suspensions and changes in health-care rules
Rep. Patti Minter, D-Bowling Green, wears a mask as she uses her phone on the House floor during a recess. At right is Rep. Chris Fugate, R-Chavies. (Kentucky Health News photos...
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Beshear rejects Trump idea of scaling distancing by county risk; hospitals cut staff in ‘lull’; Ky. board limits drugs Trump promoted
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Kentucky confirmed 50 more cases of covid-19 Thursday,...
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Republican senators move legislation that would let GOP attorney general block abortions during Beshear’s pandemic emergency
Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Kentucky Health NewsReacting to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s order that apparently lets abortions continue during the covid-19 pandemic, Republican legislators have adopted a countermeasure.A Senate...
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Most Kentuckians with Alzheimer’s are over 65 and have chronic illness, putting them at greater risk of covid-19; tips for caretakers
UKNow photo —– People with Alzheimer’s disease are considered at high risk for covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, not only because they have Alzheimer’s, but also because...