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Congress agrees on bipartisan opioid package
Congress has agreed on a comprehensive package to address the opioid epidemic, which includes both law-enforcement and public-health measures. President Trump is expected to sign it. The 653-page bill has...
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Panel acknowledges medical benefits of medical marijuana but also concerns, including potency of a possible ‘Trojan horse’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Research shows conclusively that medical marijuana has some health benefits, but also comes with some adverse risks that would likely be exacerbated by the...
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McCreary and Wayne counties win Health Policy Champion award from Foundation for a Healthy Ky. for being ‘bright spots’
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky CEO Ben Chandler announced the award as nominees listened. — By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Wayne and McCreary counties won the first overall Health...
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Appalachian health researchers discuss work, with three sessions on drugs, and are urged to engage more closely with communities
Joyce Bells-Berry of the Mayo Clinic, keynote at the Appalachian Translational Research Network Summit — By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A big step toward improving health in Appalachia would...
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Deal to sell Jewish Hospital may be falling apart, raising the possibility that it might be closed, with big ramifications
The future of Louisville’s Jewish Hospital is in doubt. Its owner, KentuckyOne Health, “continues to lose money after months of negotiating to sell it and other local facilities to a...
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Arkansas drops thousands from Medicaid for non-compliance with work requirements; Ky. official says ‘Kentucky is not Arkansas’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Arkansas is the first state to implement work and community-engagement requirements for some of its “able-bodied” Medicaid beneficiaries, just like Kentucky is trying to...
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Kentucky public-health nurses in N.C. helping deal with Florence
Commissioner Jeffrey Howard, far right, posed with the team headed to North Carolina. Back row, L-R: Nancy Hamilton (Department for Public Health), Sherita Hall (Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness), Christopher Smith (Lexington-Fayette...
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State’s new health commissioner, Dr. Jeffrey Howard, is called ‘a breath of fresh air’ by a local director who’s seen six of them
Commissioner Jeffrey Howard talks with Kentucky Health News reporter Melissa Patrick. (Photo by state spokesman Doug Hogan) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky’s recently installed health...
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260 in Morehead hear speakers on opioid recovery and solutions to the epidemic: rebuilding communities and long-term treatment
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Treating opioid-use disorder as a chronic disease, finding local solutions and restoring communities were the overarching themes of an event in Morehead Sept. 5...
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Veteran of Medicaid in several states named commissioner in Ky.; health cabinet creates new post to deal with health-care providers
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Serviceshas named Carol H. Steckel commissioner of the Department of Medicaid Services. Steckel is a Medicaid and managed-care expert with more than two decades of...