Category: HEALTH POLICY
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FDA proposes ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars, popular among Blacks, whose leaders are divided on the matter
Photo from ash.org —– Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its long-anticipated plan to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavors in cigars. “The proposed rules would help prevent children...
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OPINION: Kentucky’s governor could legalize medical marijuana with ‘a game of constitutional chicken,’ advocate writes
Jim Higdon —– By Jim Higdon Gov. Andy Beshear is the first governor in the history of Kentucky to call for legalizing cannabis. Following the failure of the Kentucky legislature...
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Coronavirus positive-test rate and new cases, and Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths, are all rising again in Kentucky
Kentucky Health News graph, from weekly state reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As in most other states, the metrics used to measure Covid-19 in Kentucky have ticked...
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Ky. journalist tells the story of her first pregnancy, focusing on choice — whether that be parenthood, adoption or abortion
Bonnie Jean Feldkamp in her high school band uniform —– A Kentucky women writes about the importance of choice when it comes to decisions about abortion and tells her story...
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Former state public-health commissioner Jeff Howard is interim director of Metro Louisville Department of Health and Wellness
Dr. Jeffrey Howard —– Dr. Jeffrey Howard, the longest-serving of three public-health commissioners in the previous state administration, has been named acting director of the Louisville Metro Department of Health and...
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Ky. Nurses Assn. and its school-nurse task force aren’t happy with the lack of state funding to reduce the nursing shortage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo —– May is National Nurses Month, a reminder of the essential services that nurses have always provided, but especially during the pandemic, which...
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Number of school-based health clinics keeps growing
Kentucky Primary Care Association map; for a larger version, click on it; to download, right click. —– The number of school-based clinics in Kentucky keeps growing, as four community health...
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Post-Roe, rural women would face more obstacles; retired health director says the issue is about men, women, sex and control
Bertie Salyer —– “Trigger laws” would make abortion in Kentucky and 12 other states illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned. That would disproportionately affect rural women, who are more likely than their...
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Panel discusses a post-Roe v. Wade America; journalists are encouraged to treat as health issue, not a political one
healthlaw.org image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two days before the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that proposes to overturn abortion rights under its 1973 Roe...
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CDC says Union, Henderson and McCracken counties have medium levels of virus, so high-risk people there need masks
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three Western Kentucky counties are yellow on the national Covid-19 risk map, for counties with a...