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By Al Cross and Tara Kaprowy Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues As the bill to require prescriptions for three widely used decongestants remains short of votes to pass...
“The Senate approved a bill Friday to allow optometrists to perform some surgical procedures on the eye and eyelid, brushing aside warnings from medical doctors who said optometrists are not...
The state Tobacco Quit Line will now offer counseling services to Kentuckians aged 15 to 17 to help them give up cigarettes or other tobacco products. The line had been...
Gov. Steve Beshear today endorsed a package of previously introduced bills that he said would give the elderly and other adults more protection against abuse and exploitation, but it did...
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky today announced four equal Social Innovation Fund grants totaling $1 million to improve access to health services, reduce health risks and disparities, and promote health equity...
By Al CrossInstitute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Gov. Steve Beshear says he hasn’t made up his mind about the bill that would require prescriptions for decongestants used to...
After hearing an endorsement from Kentucky’s senior member of Congress, and opposition from the wife of another Republican congressman, a state Senate committee voted 6-4 to require precriptions for decongestants...
The CEO of Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia “resigned Monday morning and was apparently escorted out of the hospital,” reports the Adair County Community Voice. Rusty Tungate “and eight others...
The Bowling Green City Commission gave second reading and final passage last night to a smoking ban that will apply to all indoor public places except “nursing homes, exclusive tobacco...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News A Republican legislator from Northern Kentucky is proposing several bills that she says would improve children’s health, defending herself from criticism by conservative bloggers who...