Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Legislature funds health insurance for Kentuckians who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to buy private coverage
Kaiser Health News graphic —– Kentucky Health News Kentucky is taking advantage of a little-used provision of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to create a health-insurance plan...
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Viral Hepatitis Conference July 27; Ky.’s rate is double U.S. rate
Kentucky will hold its eighth annual conference on viral hepatitis on July 27, the day after World Hepatitis Day. “Hepatitis in Kentucky: The Role of Professionals in Hepatitis Elimination” will...
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DEA declared National Fentanyl Awareness Day; now is ‘the most dangerous time in history to use drugs,’ ARC executive says
dea.gov photo —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to increase in overdose deaths caused by fentanyl, a highly addictive synthetic opioid, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration declared Tuesday, May 10...
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CDC says 12 Kentucky counties have medium levels of coronavirus as cases and positivity-rates creep up across state
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twelve Kentucky counties, most of them in Eastern Kentucky, are in yellow, indicating a medium level...
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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...