Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Cameron, 20 other Republican attorneys general sue to overturn CDC’s mask mandate in public transportation hubs
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s rule requiring...
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House-passed bill to expand individuals’ vaccine privacy rights fails to make it out of Senate committee as session nears end
Rep. Savannah Maddox —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if they have received a Covid-19...
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CDC rates fewer Ky. counties at high risk from virus, but levels in some have increased and state’s risk level is still relatively high
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News —– Kentucky as a whole is at lower risk from the coronavirus than it was a week ago,...
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Legislature moving bills to address health-care worker shortage
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 legislative session, three bills to address Kentucky’s healthcare workforce...
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FDA allows several more e-cig products to remain on market; decisions pending on products of several major makers
A newly approved product —– The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products to remain on the market, it said Thursday. “The agency authorized several tobacco-flavored vape pods and...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boosted
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continues to wane in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear cautioned Thursday that the...
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State Senate floor leader says medical marijuana bill is dead
The latest effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in Kentucky is “done for the year,” the majority floor leader of the state Senate told Austin Horn of the Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday. “I...
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After changes to appease county governments, the bill to address ambulance transfer times is raring to go for its final dispatch
Dwayne Oliver and Doug Byers of Lee County’s ambulance service refit one after a run. (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After yet...
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Bill near final passage would delay lab results of cancer or genetic markers from going on electronic health records for 72 hours
Rep. Killian Timoney —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature is nearing final passage of a bill that would give health-care providers a chance to contact patients to...
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Bill Wagner, who headed group of health clinics for disadvantaged in Louisville, wins Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy Award
Wagner, left, with Foundation President and CEO Chandler —– William Wagner, retired CEO of Family Health Centers of Louisville, is the latest winner of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky‘s Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy...