Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Health issues poll: 75% of Ky. adults support tax on e-cigarettes; highest rate of use is in younger adults; about half recognize harm
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll shows that three out of four Kentucky adults support taxing electronic cigarettes, which is the only tobacco product...
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Executive of ‘low-rated’ nursing-home chain is now health cabinet’s inspector general, overseeing nursing-home inspection
Adam Mather —– When Andy Beshear became governor a month ago, Adam Mather was regional operations vice president for Signature HealthCare, a Louisville-based firm “that owns more than two dozen low-rated...
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State has texting programs to help young people stop ‘vaping;’ experts say only 5 of 100 smokers are able to quit on their own
WebMD photo —– The abrupt change in the legal age to buy tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, has likely resulted in many to people 18, 19 and 20 being cut off...
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Transport and fears of stigma and lack of confidentiality biggest barriers to accessing rural syringe exchanges, study concludes
Counties in study are in red; click on the image to enlarge it. —– By Heather Chapman Kentucky Health News Rural residents who inject drugs say they are less likely...
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Lexington launches free app for youth to educate them about opioids; promoters hope to roll it out across state this year
Image from the FEND website —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Lexington is offering a new app called FEND, for “Full Energy, No Drugs,” to aid in the education...
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New AG vows to fight child abuse (Ky. ranks No. 1 in it); child-advocate groups want changes in state laws to protect children
Atty. Gen. Daniel Cameron spoke at a press conference about child abuse. (Louisville Courier Journal photo) —– Kentucky’s new attorney general called a press conference to declare his office’s commitment to...
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Grayson County newspapers introduce health department’s new public health director, who says he’s going after human trafficking
Grayson County Public Health Director Joshua Embry (Photo by Matt Lasley, Grayson County News-Gazette) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News LEITCHFIELD, Ky. – Health departments in Kentucky usually operate in...
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FDA bans sale of most flavors in cartridge-based e-cigarettes; menthol flavor still allowed, against health advocates’ advice
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Trump administration has announced a ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes except for menthol and tobacco-flavored products for cartridge-based systems, like pods...
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New legal age of 21 to buy tobacco products surprises some; anti-smoking leaders say it won’t thwart teenagers’ use of e-cigarettes
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The minimum age to buy tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, is now 21. Legislation to raise the nationwide legal age from 18 passed Congress...
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Gov. Beshear rescinds Bevin’s Medicaid waiver plan but asks federal government to let Kentucky keep four parts of it
Beshear signs executive order on Medicaid. (Melissa Patrick photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As he promised in his campaign, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear rescinded defeated Republican predecessor Matt...