Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Matthew Coleman is new director of state Office of Rural Health
By Beth Bowling University of Kentucky HAZARD, Ky. — Matthew Coleman has been named director of the Kentucky Office of Rural Health at the Hazard-based University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in...
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Kentucky farmers deal with uncontrollable stressors; there’s a mental-health coalition that helps them
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern This story discusses suicide and mental health among farmers. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide...
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Kentucky keeps losing doctors when it needs more of them; in the 2022 fiscal year it had only seven for every eight it had in 2018
Kentucky Health News Kentucky is losing physicians at a time when it needs many more of them, the top executive of the Kentucky Medical Association told a legislative committee Wednesday....
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Electronic cigarette sales are way up, and so are calls to poison-control centers about children’s exposure to the devices
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Electronic cigarette sales are up, and so are calls to poison control centers, according to two new reports from the Centers for Disease Control...
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E-cigarettes get bigger and badder: Sales up rose 47% in last 3 years, nicotine content up 76% in last 5; FDA struggles to regulate
By Liz Szabo KFF Health News When the Food and Drug Administration first asserted the authority to regulate electronic cigarettes in 2016, many people assumed the agency would quickly get...
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Herald-Leader digs into idea of using a psychedelic drug to treat opioid-use disorder, talks to a Ky. woman about her use of it
The head of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission has suggested using up to $42 million of the more than $900 million in settlement funds with drug companies to invest...
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Abortion providers drop, at least for now, challenge to state’s anti-abortion laws after failing to find a patient to be the plaintiff
Kentucky’s two abortion clinics are dropping a legal challenge to the state’s near-total abortion ban, citing the state Supreme Court’s decision this year that they lacked standing to sue on...
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‘Understanding autism: A KET Forum’ premieres June 27
Autism, which is a complicated and often misunderstood neurological and developmental disorder, will be the subject of a forum on KET at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, June 27 and on...
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Kentucky ranks 40th in child well-being, 3 slots lower than 2021; child obesity and underweight births up, child death rate way up
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky, where nearly one in four people are children, ranked 40th among states for the overall well-being of its children, dropping three slots from...
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FDA panel recommends updating Covid-19 vaccines; here’s why
The Food and Drug Administration‘s external scientific committee unanimously recommended Thursday that Covid-19 vaccines be updated to thwart new versions of the virus, which is mutating about twice as fast...