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Lexington’s health department starts National Public Health Week by honoring two ‘public health heroes’
UK Professor Sharon Walsh —– University of Kentucky Professor Sharon Walsh and Lexington Fire Battalion Chief Marc Bramlage have been named the Dr. Rice C. Leach Public Health Heroes for 2022...
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Latest bill to aid independent pharmacies stalls in Senate after running into one of the session’s heaviest lobbying campaigns
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT – The latest bill to help independent pharmacies compete with pharmacy benefit managers sailed out of the House with overwhelming support but came...
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Legislature passes public-assistance reform bill with changes that please advocates; health cabinet secretary still sees ‘red tape’
Rep. David Meade, R-Stanford —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Legislation aimed at getting able-bodied adults off Medicaid and other public-assistance programs and back into the workforce, and decreasing...
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Most in nationwide poll say they have contracted the coronavirus, but concern about serious Covid-19 illness in their family declines
Most Americans say they have contracted the coronavirus, and the infected are more likely to be Republicans, says a new poll by Monmouth University in New Jersey. “This appears to be the first poll to show...
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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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One mother’s story helps show how recovery from addiction, difficult anywhere, is even harder in much of rural Kentucky
Megan Simpson works after group class at Living Clean transitional housing in Manchester. She recently completed peer support training and passed her certification test. She started as a peer support...
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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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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...