Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Legislators nix Beshear’s 2nd regulation to expand Medicaid dental, vision and hearing services, but it’ll remain in place for now
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature’s Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee voted May 9 to find Gov. Andy Beshear’s new regulations to expand Medicaid’s vision, dental and hearing services...
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New Kentucky website provides data, maps and charts on how the environment affects human health, county by county
The state Department for Public Health has launched a new resource for tracking a variety of topics that affect health in Kentucky. The website Healthtracking.ky.gov not only includes information and data about...
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Rep. Guthrie’s bipartisan bill to increase access to breakthrough therapies for people on Medicaid advances out of committee
U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie’s bipartisan bill to help Medicaid patients access breakthrough therapies, including gene therapies, to treat and cure rare diseases was approved by the House Energy and Commerce...
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Surgeon general issues public-health advisory that warns about the dangers of social-media use to children’s mental health
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Concerns about the effects of social media on youth mental health prompted America’s top public-health official to issue a rare public-health advisory that calls...
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In dedicating memorial, Beshear says he intended it partly as a response to those who discounted the pandemic for political ends
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As he dedicated the state’s memorial to Kentucky’s 18,600-plus Covid-19 victims Wednesday, Gov. Andy Beshear said it was intended partly as a response to...
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Rabbi at dedication of pandemic memorial says ‘Denial can never cure disease, and … distortions can never change facts’
Wednesday’s dedication of the state’s pandemic memorial closed with a prayer from Rabbi David Wirtschafter of Lexington’s Temple Adath Israel, who first read his adaptation of Archibald MacLeish’s poem “The...
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U.S. Department of Agriculture gives Grace Community Health, a nonprofit, a $1 million grant to build a new clinic in Pineville
The U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s Rural Development program is giving $1 million to help build a medical clinic in Pineville for Covid-19 testing, treatment and vaccines, as well as integrated...
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Guthrie agrees to work on nursing shortage with Democrat on his subcommittee, saying it may be the biggest issue in health care
U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, in his role as chair of the major health subcommittee in the House, pledged last week to work with a rising Delaware Democrat to...
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Ky. kids still aren’t as immunized as they were before pandemic; pertussis threat rises; cancer-preventing vaccine rates still low
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Immunize Kentucky Coalition‘s Immunization Summit, held May 10 in Lexington, opened with a warning that Kentucky’s children fell behind on their immunizations during...
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Legislative task forces will examine Cabinet for Health and Family Services and certificate-of-need process for health-care facilities
The Kentucky General Assembly has created joint House-Senate committees to study specific topics, including the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the state’s certificate-of-need process for health-care facilities. The...