Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Beshear gets bill to regulate Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to a court decision that deemed products containing Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol to be legal, a bill to regulate products with the substance has...
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George Rawlings, who founded industry that recovers health-care costs from patients who get settlements or judgments, dies at 77
George Rawlings, who made a fortune by starting an industry that recovers health-care providers’ costs of caring for patients who later get settlements or verdicts for injuries from accidents and...
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Former state health commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson is the new board chair of the Trust for America’s Health
Dr. Stephanie Mayfield Gibson, who was state health commissioner in 2012-15, is the new board chair of the Trust for America’s Health, which defines itself as “a non-profit, non-partisan organization...
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Ernie Scott of Letcher County dies of rare brain aneurysm at 46; had been director of the State Office of Rural Health since 2013
Funeral services were held Friday for Ernie Scott, who was director of the State Office of Rural Health in the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health. He died of a rare...
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Bill to address postpartum depression and other maternal mental-health problems has passed and awaits the governor’s action
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ensure greater access to information and resources for mental-health care before and after the birth of a child passed without dissent...
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Medical cannabis bill passes Senate, awaits House vote March 30
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill that would make medical marijuana legal for some in Kentucky has passed the state Senate for the first time and awaits a...
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Bill to ban gender-affirming care for youth passes after advocates scramble and maneuver to quash bipartisan Senate changes
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A revised bill with language to ban gender-affirming care for Kentucky’s transgender youth moved quickly through both houses of the General Assembly Thursday and is...
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Long Covid update: There’s still reason to avoid Covid-19, even if you’ve had it already; it’s ‘annoyingly stubborn,’ expert says
By Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist Covid-19 is not the common cold. Here’s an effort to keep you up to date on long-Covid developments. What we knew: Long Covid after...
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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...