By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Legislation aimed at getting able-bodied adults off Medicaid and other public-assistance programs ...
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Beshear seeks one more month of emergency food benefits, after suggesting that the legislature hadn't left that option open to himHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On March 21, Republicans in Kentucky's legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear'...
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Cameron, 20 other Republican attorneys general sue to overturn CDC's mask mandate in public transportation hubsHealthy Care
Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
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Most in nationwide poll say they have contracted the coronavirus, but concern about serious Covid-19 illness in their family declinesHealthy Care
Most Americans say they have contracted the coronavirus, and the infected are more likely to be Republicans, says a new poll by Monmouth ...
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Probably the worst episode seen in my medical career - and, in today's hospitals, this story does not apparently constitute neglect of a disabled adultHealthy Care Renewal
I post this New York Times story with little additional commentary. I will say that I've written the President of Cornell University, c...
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House-passed bill to expand individuals' vaccine privacy rights fails to make it out of Senate committee as session nears endHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if th...
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Pandemic numbers nearing levels seen before Omicron variant hitHealthy Care
Kentucky Health News graph from weekly state reports By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic in Kentucky has declined to lev...
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One mother's story helps show how recovery from addiction, difficult anywhere, is even harder in much of rural KentuckyHealthy Care
Megan Simpson works after group class at Living Clean transitional housing in Manchester. She recently completed peer support...
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CDC rates fewer Ky. counties at high risk from virus, but levels in some have increased and state's risk level is still relatively high Healthy Care
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News Kentucky Health News Kentucky as a whole is at lower ris...
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Legislature moving bills to address health-care worker shortageHealthy Care
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 leg...
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U of L says it will spend $144 million to upgrade hospitalHealthy Care
Artists' rendering from University of Louisville Health The University of Louisville plans to expand and renovate its 40-year...
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Even a mild case of Covid-19 can cause long-term brain damageHealthy Care
Illustration from JAMA Network Brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild Covid-19 cases. Researchers at Oxford Un...
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FDA allows several more e-cig products to remain on market; decisions pending on products of several major makersHealthy Care
A newly approved product The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products...
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Beshear says Omicron BA.2 subvariant circulating in Kentucky; public-health advice is the same: get vaccinated and boostedHealthy Care
Illustration by the University of California at Los Angeles By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While the pandemic continu...
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State Senate floor leader says medical marijuana bill is deadHealthy Care
The latest effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in Kentucky is “done for the year,” the majority floor leader of the state Senate to...
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After changes to appease county governments, the bill to address ambulance transfer times is raring to go for its final dispatchHealthy Care
Dwayne Oliver and Doug Byers of Lee County's ambulance service refit one after a run. (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Lexington Herald...
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Bill near final passage would delay lab results of cancer or genetic markers from going on electronic health records for 72 hoursHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The legislature is nearing final passage of a bill that would give health-care providers a chance ...
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Bill Wagner, who headed group of health clinics for disadvantaged in Louisville, wins Gil Friedell Memorial Health Policy AwardHealthy Care
Wagner, left, with Foundation President and CEO Chandler William Wagner, retired CEO of Family Health Centers of Louisville, is ...
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Almost six months after going into hospital with Covid-19, and a double-lung transplant as a last resort, patient is heading homeHealthy Care
Staff members congratulate Victor Gonzales-Villatoro on his discharge at UK. (Photo by Hilary Brown) By Hilary Brown University o...
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McConnell, Va. senator poke FDA about lack of action on rules to enforce two-year-old minimum age of 21 to buy tobacco productsHealthy Care
Sens. McConnell and Kaine at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center in 2019 (Courier-Journal photo by Pat McDonogh) ...
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Republicans end state of emergency by overriding veto, say Beshear can get one more month of extra food benefits from fedsHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky's overwhelmingly Republican legislature has overriden Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear...
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Most of Kentucky's coronavirus measures continue to fall, but Covid-19 death reports continue to average about 40 per dayHealthy Care
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; click it to enlarge. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Heal...
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