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How health-care providers can help prevent overdoses: 4 steps, plus culture change to make intervention routine, lessen stigma

By Drs. Scott E. Hadland and Evan Wood; and Eri D. Solomon Opinion article published in JAMA Internal Medicine North America is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic now driven by illicitly...

By Heather Close Published March 15, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Legislature passes bill to keep Kentuckians’ disabilities from being sole cause of discrimination in allocating organs for transplant

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ensure that Kentuckians with disabilities are not discriminated against when being considered for an organ transplant has passed both houses of...

By Heather Close Published March 15, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Bill to require insurers to cover biomarker testing goes to Beshear

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to require private and public insurance plans in Kentucky to cover biomarker testing for cancer and screenings for genetic-based reactions to drugs...

By Heather Close Published March 15, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

New coronavirus cases dropped in Ky. last week but Covid-19 deaths increased; N.Y. Times ranks new-case rate 2nd in nation

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported a 46 percent drop in new coronavirus cases last week, but its rate of new infections remained among the highest in the...

By Heather Close Published March 15, 2023 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Study for hospital association says 38% of Ky. hospitals at risk of closure due to losses; bill would have Medicaid pay for outpatients

By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Citing “inflation, record-high operating costs, and lower volumes,” a new report prepared for the Kentucky Hospital Association says 38% of Kentucky’s hospitals are at risk...

By Heather Close Published March 13, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

House sends Senate a bill to regulate Delta-8 THC as Senate prepares to give medical-marijuana bill its first hearing and vote

By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern After a court decision last year legalized an intoxicating compound derived from hemp, a bill to regulate Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol sped through the state House on...

By Heather Close Published March 13, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Bill to let advanced-practice registered nurses prescribe controlled substances on their own after four years passes, at long last

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a path for Kentucky’s advanced-practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances independently has finally passed and is on its way...

By Heather Close Published March 13, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

If you smoke pot, lay off before surgery; you could wake up early

Regular users of marijuana may need up to three times more anesthetic to keep them unconscious during surgical procedures, so they need to tell surgical personnel about it, say doctors...

By Heather Close Published March 13, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH

With pandemic benefits long gone, and inflation pushing up food prices, lines for free food can stretch for a mile in Hazel Green

HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly recalled receiving the letter announcing that...

By Heather Close Published March 13, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

FDA proposes new requirements for makers of tobacco products aimed at minimizing contamination, protecting public health

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing new rules that are aimed at minimizing contamination of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, and that would...

By Heather Close Published March 13, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, TOBACCO

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