Hepatitis A vaccine ( USA Today photo by Nikki Boliaux) The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services won't have to cond...
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20 test positive for E.coli and six of them are hospitalized, mostly in Central Kentucky; state health department searching for source Healthy Care
E. coli symptoms (Graphic by JR Bee, Verywell Health ) Twenty Kentuckians have tested positive for an infection caused by a stra...
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Bill to require 'reasonable accommodations' to pregnant women at work passes on last day of legislative sessionHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill that allows pregnant women "reasonable accommodations" while a...
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State health department funds mobile syringe exchange for Laurel, Whitley, Knox, Clay and Jackson countiesHealthy Care
A mobile syringe exchange will go to five Eastern Kentucky counties: Knox, Laurel, Whitley, Clay and Jackson. (WYMT-TV) Fiv...
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Statewide tobacco-free-schools bill finally passes, and is the governor is expected to sign it into law, effective in 2020Healthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill to ban the use of tobacco products in all Kentucky public schools and ev...
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Health departments, regional mental-health centers, other entities get a pension fix, but at a cost to some employees' pensionsHealthy Care
Teachers filled the Senate gallery. (Herald-Leader photo by Matt Goins) As it closed up shop, the legislature gave local health d...
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'Fatal Flaws' series on Ky. workplace safety wins national award for Kentucky Center for Investigative JournalismHealthy Care
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Despite Public Protestations of of Bipartisanship, Many CEOs of the Largest US Health Care Corporations Appear Partisan, and Mainly RepublicanHealthy Care Renewal
Leaders of big health care organizations clearly are interested in influencing public policy and government regulation in ways that favor th...
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Judge again blocks state's Medicaid plan with work requirements for many, says likewise for similar plan already in effect in Ark.Healthy Care
Man who ran drug-treatment facilities in Ironton and Portsmouth, Ohio, is indicted on drug-trafficking chargesHealthy Care
Graffiti under the U.S. Grant Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio (Cincinnati Enquirer photo by Liz Dufour) The former operator of Ohio d...
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Bevin signs bill setting deadlines for insurers to authorize medications prescribed by health-care providersHealthy Care
Gomerpedia.org Gov. Matt Bevin has signed into law "a bill that’s expected to ease the process for getting some medications ...
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Beshear says he's investigating pharmacy benefit managers for possible overcharging and discrimination against independentsHealthy Care
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear Attorney General Andy Beshear announced March 21 that he is investig...
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Health departments scramble to fight hepatitis A outbreakHealthy Care
Peyton Manning had hepatitis C but didn't know about hepatitis A or the outbreak until it hit him. (Michael Clevenger, Courier J...
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Montgomery County reports uptick in cases of syphilisHealthy Care
Health officials in Montgomery County say they're seeing more syphilis cases. "What had become a relatively rare disease is now s...
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Justice secretary favors treatment over incarceration; 'We have to distinguish who we are mad at and who we are actually afraid of'Healthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nearly 90 Fulbright scholars from 49 countries attended a University of Kentucky seminar, "...
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Here's a list of health-related bills in the General AssemblyHealthy Care
Kentucky Health News When the General Assembly returns Thursday, March 28, for the final day of its session, it could pass any number of bi...
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...or the Pearly King & Queen edition Here we are again - another day, another blog - and in a week when the Culture, Health & Well...
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Bevin says he exposed his nine children to chickenpox, pooh-poohs required vaccinations, misstates who requires themHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin said in a radio interview that he exposed his nine children to chickenpox instead...
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Doctor pleads guilty to illegal prescription of painkillers, some of which resulted in two deaths, federal prosecutors sayHealthy Care
A doctor in Appalachian Southern Kentucky pleaded guilty March 18 to 13 counts of prescribing controlled substances without any legitimate m...
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Youth suicide rates are increasing in Ky.; Courier Journal does in-depth stories, in hopes of spurring conversation to find out why Healthy Care
The editor of the Louisville Courier Journal posted this note with the package of stories, Some readers may find one quotation in...
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