Unknown Sunday, March 31, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Resolution to require study of response to hepatitis A outbreak, and recommendations to avoid a repeat, failed in the legislatureHealthy Care Hepatitis A vaccine ( USA Today photo by Nikki Boliaux) The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services won't have to cond... Read More
Unknown Saturday, March 30, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Drug makers' payments to doctors may influence their choice of what drugs to prescribe, and that can cost patients real moneyHealthy Care Read More
Unknown Friday, March 29, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Thursday, March 28, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 'Fatal Flaws' series on Ky. workplace safety wins national award for Kentucky Center for Investigative JournalismHealthy Care http://fatalflaws.kycir.org/?utm_source=KyCIR&utm_campaign=13addb68bb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_28_02_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Renewal Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit Judge again blocks state's Medicaid plan with work requirements for many, says likewise for similar plan already in effect in Ark.Healthy Care Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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 ... Read More
Unknown Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Sunday, March 24, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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, ... Read More
Unknown Saturday, March 23, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Research Edit Get Happy...Healthy Research ...or the Pearly King & Queen edition Here we are again - another day, another blog - and in a week when the Culture, Health & Well... Read More
Unknown Friday, March 22, 2019 Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More
Unknown Add Comment Healthy Care Edit 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... Read More