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Do you use or prescribe medications for opioid-use disorder? Researchers at UK would like to know what you think about it
Illustration from University of Kentucky —– Primary-care providers who prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid-use disorder, and people receiving treatment for the disorder, are invited to participate in studies led by...
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Most Kentucky hospitals in national safety ratings got Cs again; state’s percentage of A grades is 35th in nation, down from 30th
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A nonprofit group that gives letter grades twice a year to hospitals for patient safety has again given grades of C to most Kentucky...
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Nation’s top opioid manufacturer, which sent 716 million pills to Kentucky in 2006-14, drove epidemic by influencing prescribers
Average number of pain pills distributed per person, per year, by county, 2006-14. (Detail of map by The Washington Post; click the image to enlarge it or click here for the interactive version.) —–...
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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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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...
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Beshear says Ky. is ‘pretty safe’ from Covid-19 and he expects ‘room for at least some executive order’ for medical marijuana
State chart, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the state heads into Kentucky Derby weekend, Gov. Andy Beshear said all the metrics to...
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Paul says if he’s re-elected and in the majority, he will subpoena Fauci’s records and ‘get to the bottom of the origins of this virus’
Paul at rally in state House Speaker David Osborne’s barn (Lexington Herald-Leader photo by Austin Horn) —– U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, seeking a third six-year term, “promised Saturday to wage a...