Tag: television
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KET examines successful recoveries from opioid addiction, airs a forum to discuss Kentucky’s opioid crisis
Kentucky Educational Television is airing “Journey to Recovery,” a documentary that looks at Kentucky’s opioid epidemic and explores the state’s available treatment options through personal stories of recovery. The program,...
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PBS NewsHour looks at Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion, governor’s plans to change it and his predecessor’s reaction
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/kentuckys-medicaid-expansion-aca-soon-change/
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Surgeon UK ousted has his say in Lexington TV report
A renowned surgeon barred from practicing or teaching at the University of Kentucky for abusive behavior said in a television interview this month that “I think you have to be...
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Sipping on sugary drinks ruins teeth, perhaps more from the acid in them; it’s almost as corrosive as battery acid, VA dentist says
Many of us constantly sip on a soft drink, especially in Kentucky, but the habit could be ruining our teeth. Most soft drinks have sugar, acid or both and repeated...
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Some comments on Medicaid plan will be adopted, and federal officials will approve revised plan, state officials say on KET
L-R: Host Bill Goodman, Brinkman, Glisson. (KET photo) By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Some of the comments about proposed changes in the state Medicaid program will be included in...
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Final hearing on Medicaid changes to be held Wed. in Hazard, hotbed of expansion, with live videostreaming from WYMT-TV
The final hearing on Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to change the Medicaid program will be held tomorrow at a different location than first planned, but with a video livestream. The...
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PAC ad calls for ‘no more Obamacare’ though Bevin and Stivers say they want to keep covering people in Medicaid expansion
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A pro-Republican political committee that doesn’t reveal its contributors is running a television commercial in response to former Gov. Steve Beshear’s effort to preserve...
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Authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic appearing in half-hour show several times on KET channels this week
Dr. Gilbert Friedell and J. Isaac Joyner, co-authors of The Great Diabetes Epidemic: A Manifesto for Control and Prevention, discuss the topic with Dr. Wayne Tuckson in a half-hour “Kentucky...
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New ad blames problems of Ky. hospitals entirely on Obamacare; they say it’s only partly to blame, but worry about future impacts
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new ad in the race for governor says “There’s a crisis in our hospitals” in Kentucky, and blames it entirely on the federal...