Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Feds add Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties to Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, citing threats from illegal drugs
Citing the magnitude of threats posed by illegal drugs, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has added Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties to the Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking...
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Many Kentuckians still defer or delay health care and prescription medications due to cost
One in five Kentuckians aged 18 to 65 are delaying medical care or going without it due to cost, according to a study done for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky....
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Appalachian Health Hack-a-thon has innovative solutions around obesity, diabetes and substance abuse; many from students
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News SOMERSET, Ky. – In just three days’ time, 160 people came up with 19 innovative solutions to three of Appalachian Kentucky’s most challenging health...
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Legislator, citing rural doctor shortages, files bill to give physician assistants authority to prescribe controlled substances
A Republican recently elected to the state House has filed legislation that would allow physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances, something they can do in every other state beginning in...
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Fighting cancer in Appalachia: Getting people screened ‘is still the hardest part;’ prevention requires multi-pronged effort, experts say
University of Kentucky video Leaders of the National Institutes of Health spent Thursday in Hazard with Fifth District U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers and local health leaders to examine efforts...
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Baptist Health Plan says it pulled out of state exchange because it attracted too many healthy people and got penalized for it
Baptist Health Plan pulled out of Kentucky’s insurance exchange because it attracted too many healthy customers and thus drew a federal penalty, Boris Ladwig reports for Insider Louisville. “The narrative...
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OxyContin sales reps used food, gifts to convince doctors to buy drugs, says investigative report
Pharmaceutical sales representatives from health-care giant Abbott Laboratories sales reps “were instructed to downplay the threat of addiction with OxyContin and make other claims to doctors that had no scientific...
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Rural veterans less likely than urban counterparts to receive mental health care, says study
Rural veterans are less likely than their urban counterparts to receive treatment for mental health conditions, says a study by the federal Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality and the...
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Smoking marijuana isn’t the biggest concern for your doctor, unless perhaps he or she is a Republican
Marijuana use is not among your doctor’s major worries, but that might depend on his or her politics, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...
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Kentucky Hospital Association will be part of a national effort to reduce infections, other acquired conditions, and readmissions
The Kentucky Hospital Association says it will again be part of a national effort to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions. “Kentucky hospitals work very hard to provide the highest...