Hopkinsville newspaper endorses smoking ban
The Kentucky New Era newspaper in Hopkinsville said in a recent editorial that if the state legislature doesn’t enact a smoking ban, the city should. The General Assembly “should not...
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The Kentucky New Era newspaper in Hopkinsville said in a recent editorial that if the state legislature doesn’t enact a smoking ban, the city should. The General Assembly “should not...
Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield, director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research and the Peter P. Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy at...
Rebuffed in its bid to take over Louisville’s University Hospital, Catholic Health Initatives announced today that its St. Joseph Health System had merged with Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare,...
“The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the mouth provides an even better view of the body as a whole,” The Wall Street Journal‘s Melinda Beck writes...
The Kentucky Department for Public Health is launching a new campaign to educate Kentuckians about the dangers of secondhand tobacco smoke and its potential effect. The campaign is funded by...
The second day of The Courier-Journal‘s investigation into prescription drug abuse and the role of doctors looks at Johnson County, ranked 11th in the state for drug overdose deaths despite...
Though the state has a serious problem with abuse of prescription drugs, the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure has a history of being soft on physicians with problematic prescription pill-writing...
Many rural hospitals could be forced to close because of cuts to the Critical Access Program and the fact that, according to the National Rural Health Association, , 41 percent...
“Farmers’ stark commitment to work is borderline obsessive, and researchers are beginning to develop new guidelines to better understand farmers, whose strong cultural and emotional ties to the farm drive...
The Corbin City Commission passed an ordinance this week to ban smoking in all enclosed public areas and enclosed public buildings. The ordinance will also require smokers to remain at...