Category: HEALTH POLICY
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House health chair says anti-trans bill will worsen state’s health-workforce shortage, chill doctors’ dealings with young patients
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ban gender-affirming treatment for Kentucky minors would worsen the state’s health-care workforce shortage and chill family health providers who often are...
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CDC says no Ky. counties at high risk of Covid-19; state planning moves to adapt to May 11 end of federal public-health emergency
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News No Kentucky counties have a high risk of Covid-19, according to this week’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s weekly risk map, and only...
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A study revives debate on masks: Twitter explodes, public is ‘befuddled;’ prevention may depend on how they’re worn
Haven’t the questions about masking been asked and answered? “Or at least that we had all agreed to disagree, but no such luck,” writes Felice J. Freyer of The Boston...
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Comer says his panel will investigate pharmacy benefit managers
As chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky’s First District is launching an investigation into pharmacy benefit managers and how they affect health-care...
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Quarles says that if elected governor, he would work with the General Assembly to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles told reporters Tuesday he would work with the General Assembly to legalize medical marijuana if he is elected governor. “It needs...
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Coronavirus cases in Kentucky have dropped for four weeks in a row, and Covid-19 hospital numbers in state remain low
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News New coronavirus cases in Kentucky last week were 9 percent lower than the week before. It is the fourth week in a row that...
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Opinion: Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness declines rapidly; seniors need to keep up their immunity, and we need a better vaccine
By Kevin Kavanagh for Infection Control Today I am at high risk for severe Covid-19, being 65 years or older, with additional health problems. I received my bivalent booster as...
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Bill to let advance-practice registered nurses prescribe controlled substances on their own passes Senate, until now its roadblock
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After years of debate and momths of negotiations, a bill to create a path for Kentucky’s advanced-practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances independently...
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Free-standing birth centers would no longer be subject to ‘competitor’s veto’ under bills awaiting votes in Senate and House
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Bills to exempt free-standing birth centers from Kentucky’s certificate-of-need law have cleared committees in the House and Senare and are poised for floor votes,...
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Energy Dept. says with ‘low confidence’ Covid-19 likely from lab; FBI confidence ‘moderate;’ intel panel, 4 other agencies disagree
The Department of Energy has concluded that the Covid-19 pandemic “most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key...