By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Many of Kentucky's school districts have long struggled to pay for school nurses, let alone p...
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April, 2019, Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime? Healthy Care Renewal
In these last few weeks, the US news has been dominated by the release of a redacted verion of the Mueller report which included extensive e...
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Skål...Healthy Research
What a treat to spend time with a contingent from Aalborg, who - led by Mads Duedahl and with colleagues from Aarhus - are exploring synergi...
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Kentucky leads the way on many opioid-related efforts, and was well-represented at the four-day drug abuse summit in AtlantaHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky officials, researchers and clinicians were front and center at the eighth annual nationa...
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Effort mounted to find and treat hepatitis C, which is spreading; most people who have it probably don't know they have itHealthy Care
"A multimillion-dollar effort to fight hepatitis C was introduced Thursday in Louisville with the help of Gov. Matt Bevin as well as m...
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Kentucky teens' use of electronic cigarettes and vapes doubled from 2016 to 2018, and is higher than national rates, survey findsHealthy Care
Use of electronic cigarettes and vapes, tracked since 2014, is shown by the blue lines. By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky...
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Roundtable at Marion County High School explores the phenomenon of electronic cigarettes among teenagersHealthy Care
By Emily LaForme The Lebanon Enterprise “Over the past two years it’s become more common,” said student Brianna Meeks. “I started seeing...
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E. coli outbreak spreads, but may be slowing downHealthy Care
The outbreak of E. coli infection centered in Kentucky has spread to nine other states, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Preve...
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Health foundation creates public service announcements about dangers of teen e-cigarette use and offers them free to anyoneHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News An explosion of electronic-cigarette use by Kentucky teenagers has prompted the launch of a state...
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Boyd County extension agents teach children healthy livingHealthy Care
By Katie Pratt and Jeff Franklin University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Young children in Boyd County are l...
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Walgreens will raise age for tobacco sales to 21 on Sept. 1Healthy Care
Photo by Mike Mozart " Walgreens has decided to raise its minimum age for tobacco sales several weeks after a top federal o...
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Smoke-free advocates say such policies are often more palatable if part of a wellness campaign and to include smokers at the tableHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If you're trying to win passage of smoke-free policies in communities that have been resistan...
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Report offers five strategies to fight opioid epidemic in Appalachia; central part of region had high death rate from overdosesHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The third report in a series that offers "replicable best practices" for Appalachian co...
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The Rise of Ideologically or Theologically Based Medicine, Public Health, and Health Policy - Recent ExamplesHealthy Care Renewal
I have long been a proponent of evidence-based medicine (EBM), and evidence-based health care, public health, and health policy. EBM, for e...
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In last decade, cost of opioid-related treatment at UK rose 733% and number of opioid patients rose 481%Healthy Care
There are several ways to measure the depth of the opioid epidemic that has spread across Kentucky and much of the nation in the past decade...
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UK gets $87 million federal grant to reduce opioid-overdose deaths in 16 counties by 40 percent in the next four yearsHealthy Care
The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Kentucky up to $87 million over the next four years, with the goal of re...
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Report offers Appalachian residents four strategies to decrease high obesity rate, aimed at deadly obesity-related diseasesHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new report offers practical strategies to help Appalachian communities tackle their high rates ...
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McConnell says he will introduce bill to raise to 21 the legal age to buy tobacco products anywhere in the nationHealthy Care
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he would sponsor legislati...
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