New legislator from Northern Ky. hopes to apply background as nurse and state anti-drug officer to her work in General Assembly

A registered nurse who has been Northern Kentucky director for the state Office of Drug Control Policy is among the newly elected Republican...

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Kentucky likely to get measures to restrict malpractice lawsuits

The coming Republican control of state government makes it likely that doctors and other health-care providers will get from the General Ass...

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Rep. Tom Burch, ousted as House Health and Welfare chair by Republican takeover, gives the gavel to Rep. Addia Wuchner

Rep. Tom Burch By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky.   –  After 30 years as chair of the House Health and Welfare Committee...

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Increasing Kentucky's cigarette tax by $1.50 a pack would decrease youth smoking, Cancer Society lobbyist writes

To decrease youth smoking in the state, the Kentucky director of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network  is calling for an increa...

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Legislator, citing rural doctor shortages, files bill to give physician assistants authority to prescribe controlled substances

A Republican recently elected to the state House has filed legislation that would allow physician assistants to prescribe controlled substa...

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