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Sheila Schuster, a longtime and leading advocate for mental health, is named the latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has named psychologist and mental health advocate Sheila A. Schuster of Louisville as the latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for her more than four decades of...
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Bank buys bankrupt Pineville hospital, says it will probably lease it back to local group to keep it operating
Pineville Mayor Scott Madon and others celebrated the takeover and renaming of the hospital during its bankruptcy proceedings. (File photo by Ray Welch, Middlesboro Daily News) —– A Tennessee-based bank has...
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Republican ad says Beshear has ‘radical views on health care;’ he calls it a smear and says Bevin wants to take away coverage
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Health care has become a major issue in the Nov. 5 election for governor, with a Republican ad accusing Attorney General Andy Beshear of...
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13 Ky. hospitals are suing over 40 opioid makers and sellers, alleging they misrepresented painkillers as safer than they were
NPR.org photo —– Thirteen Kentucky hospitals are suing more than 40 opioid manufacturers, distributors and sellers for using “a false narrative marketing scheme” that understated the risks associated with opioids...
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Alice Bridges of Louisville named latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for community health and childhood trauma efforts
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has named longtime Louisville health-care executive Alice O. Bridges as the latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for her work to address childhood trauma in schools and...
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Jamie Ennis Bloyd of Lexington, advocate for work on childhood cancer, is named latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has named Jamie Ennis Bloyd, who has worked at both the state and national level to advance research and policies for childhood cancer prevention, treatment and...
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Philip Morris, Altria may re-unite; single firm would be market leader in nicotine delivery, and health advocates don’t like it
IQOS items sold by Philip Morris, soon to be by Altria Group —– Health advocates and tobacco foes are objecting to a possible reunion of Altria Group and Philip Morris International, on grounds...
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Kentucky public health nurses and administrative staff travel to North Carolina to help people displaced by Hurricane Dorian
A team of Kentucky public-health nurses are on their way to North Carolina to provide medical support in local shelters filled by Hurricane Dorian for about two weeks, said the...
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Save the date: Friday, Nov. 15, to attend Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery, a workshop for journalists, in Ashland
Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery: A Workshop for Journalists will be held in Ashland Nov. 15 by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The workshop is...
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Regular users of syringe exchanges who say they can decrease opioid use (and don’t use meth) are more likely to get treatment
One of the first studies to explore syringe-service programs in rural counties found that the participants who consistently used a syringe exchange and voiced high confidence in their ability to...