By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky saw a 7.4 increase in drug-overdose deaths in 2016, largely driven by heroin and a synth...
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Form for religious exemption from vaccination can now be obtained online, with no role for any health-care provider-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky parents who don't want their children vaccinated for religious reasons can now get t...
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Danville paper looks at how the proposed health law would affect the local community-HEALTHYLIVE
Danville's newspaper, The Advocate-Messenger , broke down and localized the potential impacts of the latest health bill in Congress. ...
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Baptist Health Paducah opens nationally accredited cancer center-HEALTHYLIVE
The grand opening of the Ray and Kay Eckstein Regional Cancer Care Center . ( Photo by Ryan Hermens, The Paducah Sun) Baptist He...
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Only two health-insurance companies offer 2018 individual plans on exchange; asking for rate increases averaging 27.5 percent-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The only health insurer offering government-subsidized health plans everywhere in Kentucky for 20...
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Three Kentucky journalists among 11 chosen in six-state region for Health Journalism Fellowship program-HEALTHYLIVE
Three Kentucky journalists have been chosen by the Association of Health Care Journalists to participate in the 2017-18 Regional Health J...
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McConnell pulls health bill for redrafting to get votes, warns Republicans that they might have to compromise with Democrats-HEALTHYLIVE
McConnell and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., leave a meeting with President Trump. (Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford) Kentucky ...
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Study finds women aged 25 to 44 are driving the increase in opioid-related emergency room and hospital stays in Kentucky-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is a national leader in yet another measurement of the painkiller epidemic: the number o...
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Legal battle over Kentucky's only abortion clinic widens; state imposes emergency rules, Planned Parenthood joins suit-HEALTHYLIVE
State officials have filed emergency regulations "that some abortion providers say are designed to shut them down," The Associated...
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McConnell would phase out Medicaid expansion through 2024; cut old Medicaid after that; uncertain if he can get 50 votes-HEALTHYLIVE
"There will be ample time to analyze, discuss, and provide thoughts before legislation comes to the floor. . . . Next week, we expect ...
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Grant County coalition wins passage of 'complete street' policies to improve the health of its citizens -HEALTHYLIVE
Grant County High School student Brookynn Scudder urged the Crittenden City Council to adopt a complete-streets policy. A Grant ...
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Attorney General Beshear joins multi-state effort to investigate role of drug manufacturers in opioid crisis-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Andy Beshear announced June 21 that he is working with attorneys general from ac...
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Bevin declines to join bipartisan group of governors' call for continuation of formula used to fund state Medicaid programs-HEALTHYLIVE
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bipartisan group of governors, including Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, is asking Congr...
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Senate GOP health bill would dramatically roll back Medicaid-HEALTHYLIVE
Kentucky Health News The health bill that Senate Republicans will unveil Thursday "would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care ...
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Louisville senator hopes third time is charm for his bill to allow marijuana to be used to alleviate suffering of the terminally ill-HEALTHYLIVE
Kentucky should join the states that have authorized marijuana for medical use, and allow it to be used to relieve suffering of the terminal...
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Ky. leads nation in opioid-addiction diagnoses for privately insured people, and in the rate of doctors prescribing medication for it-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky doctors diagnosed more cases of opioid addiction for privately insured people than in an...
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Post's chief fact-checker gives McConnell an upside-down Pinocchio for a flip-flop the senator won't acknowledge-HEALTHYLIVE
"It has become a regular feature of the U.S. political system that the politicians in the minority accuse the politicians in power of c...
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Senate health bill expected Thursday, McConnell says; will treat Medicaid differently than the House bill did-HEALTHYLIVE
Study finds dog owners walk 22 more minutes per day, at a pace that improves health; Ky. seniors rank very low for physical activity-HEALTHYLIVE
WebMD photo By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Dog owners walk on average 22 more minutes per day compared to people who ...
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Frankfort area has an outbreak of a new, stronger strain of dog flu; cats could also be affected; vets say pets shouldn't socialize-HEALTHYLIVE
Hattie relaxes at East Frankfort Park Wednesday afternoon. Her owner said she will get her canine flu vaccination soon. (State Jour...
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Study says health bill passed by the House would cost Kentucky 16,500 jobs in the next decade-HEALTHYLIVE
A study says that if Congress and President Trump were to enact into law the health bill passed by the House, the nation would lose nearly 1...
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Anderson Co. Middle School bans fictional teen suicide book from curriculum; school psychologists' group has concerns about book-HEALTHYLIVE
Anderson County Middle School will no longer use a fictional book on teenage suicide for classroom instruction, citing a controversial Netfl...
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Some Republicans, including Rand Paul, don't like Mitch McConnell's strategy of drafting health bill in secret-HEALTHYLIVE
President Trump and Sen. McConnell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to catch heat from Democrats, and dissatisfac...
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