By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill designed to inform Kentuckians about the importance of getting rid of th...
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Ky. Hospital Assn. joins Bevin suit against 16 Kentuckians who say changes he and feds are making to Medicaid are illegal -HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Hospital Association has joined Gov. Matt Bevin's federal lawsuit against the 1...
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County-by-county figures on Medicaid enrollment updated-HEALTHYLIVE
How many people in your county are beneficiaries of the federal-state Medicaid program? How many of them are on Medicaid, thanks to its 2014...
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State not keeping up with 'explosion' of babies with hepatitis C-HEALTHYLIVE
Courier Journal charts The dangerous liver virus hepatitis C "has skyrocketed among Kentucky births amid the state’s raging ...
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No-penalty bill to require bicycle helmets dies, as some senators counted as 'yes' votes fail to show up for final committee meeting-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – A no-penalty bill to require children under 12 to wear a helmet when bicycling...
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Kentucky at or near top in several measures of binge drinking-HEALTHYLIVE
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Binge drinking in Kentucky, which has been rising in recent years, is now among the heaviest in the nati...
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State leads nation in local syringe exchanges; still lacking in most counties judged vulnerable to disease outbreaks from IV drug use-HEALTHYLIVE
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky has long ranked high among the states in the number of counties. Now it leads the nation in the...
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Fiscal court in county with serious drug problem narrowly approves syringe exchange; city council is remaining hurdle-HEALTHYLIVE
Clinton County ( Wikipedia map) Clinton County, which has a serious drug-abuse problem, is one step away from becoming the fift...
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Rural health clinics claim drug makers and distributors 'created and engineered' opioid epidemic, seek national class action-HEALTHYLIVE
"Two rural Kentucky health clinics are trying to open a new front in the legal battle against drug companies that allegedly used improp...
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Denied federal funding, study on the health effects of mountaintop-removal coal mining has been abandoned-HEALTHYLIVE
"After Trump administration officials ordered a halt to a study on the health effects of mountaintop removal last fall, the study’s c...
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Optometry bill delivered to the governor after Senate changes-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to regulate online eye exams has been delivered to Gov. Matt Bevin after getting final pas...
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Sex-ed bill to require abstinence and monogamy be taught nears final passage; foes want comprehensive curriculum-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A Senate bill to require Kentucky schools to teach abstinence and monogamy in sex-education progr...
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New interactive map shows county-level data on Appalachian opioid ODs correlated with socioeconomic data-HEALTHYLIVE
A screen cap from the map showing opioid overdose rates with the highest rates in dark blue. (Click the image to enlarge it.) A ...
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Senate health panel OKs 4 opioid bills; 3 quickly pass Senate-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Four of the seven bills that passed out of the March 14 Senate Health and Welfare Committee meeti...
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Dr. William P. 'Buddy' McElwain, health commissioner for Govs. Louie Nunn, Wendell Ford and Julian Carroll, dies at 84-HEALTHYLIVE
Dr. W.P. McElwain in 2012 Dr. William P. "Buddy" McElwain, who was state health commissioner under three governors in t...
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Original sponsor of $1 cigarette-tax increase says it's not salable right now but hopes House-Senate negotiation keeps 50-cent hike-HEALTHYLIVE
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The state Senate's version of the budget will not include the House's 50-cent-...
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Vast majority of Ky. adults see child obesity as serious problem; one-third of Ky. children aged 10 to 17 are obese or overweight-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This should come as no surprise: More than 90 percent of the state's adults say it's a pr...
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Bill to require kids under 12 to wear bicycle helmets falls one vote short in committee; advocates say it will be called up again-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House bill to require children under 12 to wear bicycle helmets came up one vote short in the S...
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The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make from pharmaceutical companies, analysis says-HEALTHYLIVE
"As tens of thousands of Americans die from prescription opioid overdoses each year, an exclusive analysis by CNN and researchers at H...
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Neighborhood just south of Churchill Downs had Jefferson County's highest rate of drug overdoses in 2017-HEALTHYLIVE
The ZIP code just south of Churchill Downs had Jefferson County's highest rate of drug-overdose deaths in 2017, Joe Sonka of Insider Lou...
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Hepatitis A cases found among workers at a Kroger in southwest Louisville and two Waffle House restaurants in the Ashland area-HEALTHYLIVE
The outbreak of hepatitis A that the state identified in November and that escalated in Louisville last month continues, with new cases ...
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Committee hears but doesn't vote on bill that would ban women from having an abortion if fetus has Down syndrome-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill to prohibit abortion of a fetus that may have Down syndrome was heard by...
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After much debate, optometrists' bill to require online eye exams to be in 'real time' passes Senate committee 6-4-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A bill to require a portion of an online eye exam to be in "real time"...
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