Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Bill to let advanced-practice registered nurses prescribe controlled substances on their own after four years passes, at long last
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a path for Kentucky’s advanced-practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances independently has finally passed and is on its way...
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With pandemic benefits long gone, and inflation pushing up food prices, lines for free food can stretch for a mile in Hazel Green
HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly recalled receiving the letter announcing that...
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FDA proposes new requirements for makers of tobacco products aimed at minimizing contamination, protecting public health
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing new rules that are aimed at minimizing contamination of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, and that would...
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Freestanding birth center bill hits roadblock: Senate floor leader
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even though a Senate bill to remove the state’s certificate of need requirements from freestanding birthing centers has passed out of the same committee...
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In first gubernatorial debate, Cameron says he could sign a medical-cannabis bill; Keck favors exceptions to abortion law
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Tuesday night that he could sign a medical-marijuana bill as governor if it law-enforcement and medical experts “can get...
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On the third anniversary of the pandemic’s arrival in Ky., the virus continues to infect and kill; state’s new-case rate still 3rd in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Today, March 6, marks the third anniversary of the announcement of Kentucky’s first case of Covid-19, a disease that has infected more than 1.7...
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With pandemic benefits long gone, and inflation pushing up food prices, lines for free food can stretch for a mile in Hazel Green
By Tim Craig The Washington Post HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly...
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Bill to exclude fentanyl test strips from legal definition of drug paraphernalia awaits initial passage by the Kentucky House
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Fentanyl test strips would no longer be considered drug paraphernalia in Kentucky under a bipartisan bill that the House Judiciary Committee approved Wednesday, on a...
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Bill would create phone app for confidential mental-health texting for Ky. youth; 9.5% of Ky. high-schoolers have attempted suicide
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a free mobile-phone application for confidential crisis intervention for Kentucky youth, parents and their teachers is poised to pass the...
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Bill to leave children’s Covid-19 vaccination decisions entirely with parents and guardians is approved by a House committee
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers have sent the House a bill to ensure that the state’s children are not required to get a Covid-19 vaccine and that...