Category: HEALTH POLICY
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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...
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McConnell, Va. senator poke FDA about lack of action on rules to enforce two-year-old minimum age of 21 to buy tobacco products
Sens. McConnell and Kaine at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center in 2019 (Courier-Journal photo by Pat McDonogh) —– Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine...
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Republicans end state of emergency by overriding veto, say Beshear can get one more month of extra food benefits from feds
State Sen. Donald Douglas —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature has overridden Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a resolution ending the Covid-19 state of...
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Most of Kentucky’s coronavirus measures continue to fall, but Covid-19 death reports continue to average about 40 per day
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 40 Kentuckians per day were recorded as...
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Senate sends House a bill to create a pilot program for treatment of offenders with mental-health or substance-use disorders
State Sen. Whitney Westerfield —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill moving through the state legislature would create a pilot program to divert some qualifying low-level offenders away...
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McConnell says more funds to fight the coronavirus should come from money in Democrats’ 2021 relief bill that hasn’t been spent
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Democrats should be willing to reallocate some unspent money from their previous pandemic relief bill to get more money to fight the coronavirus....
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Flu cases in Kentucky have ticked up a bit in the last few weeks, and it’s not too late to get a flu shot; season can go through May
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Following nine weeks of decline, influenza cases in Kentucky ticked back up. The state Department for Public Health reports that...