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Kentucky Association of Health Plans is offering free rides at Kentucky State Fair to people who get vaccinated at its site there

he Kentucky Association of Health Plans is hosting its third annual vaccination pop-up clinic at the Kentucky State Fair and while supplies last, will give away free, unlimited ride wristbands...

By Heather Close Published August 21, 2023 EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Demon Copperhead author and Kentucky native Barbara Kingsolver talks about the opioid epidemic and Appalachia’s difficulty with it

Barbara Kingsolver says she intended her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead to be her “great Appalachian novel” that told the story of how the opioid epidemic has ravaged the region, and its...

By Al Cross Published August 15, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH POLICY, OPINION

The ‘sandwich generation’ still supports its children while caring for its parents, which is playing a toll on its health

Kentucky Health News America has Generation X, Generation Z and more, but it also has “the sandwich generation,” adults between 40 and 59 who care for their aging parents and...

By Al Cross Published August 15, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Health-care workers are more likely than law-enforcement officers to have injuries and illnesses that keep them away from work

Kentucky Health News “Health-care workers are increasingly being assaulted or shot on the job, making hospitals and clinics among the most dangerous workplaces in America,” report Tina Reed and Jason Millman of Axios. ...

By Al Cross Published August 15, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY

Attorney general files lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers, manufacturers over alleged insulin pricing scheme

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers over an alleged insulin pricing scheme. The lawsuit...

By Heather Close Published August 14, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

UK HealthCare joins several other Kentucky hospital systems and will no longer require employees to get a Covid-19 vaccination

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Federal rules requiring Covid-19 vaccinations in health care settings were lifted in early June, and while several of the larger Kentucky hospital systems soon...

By Heather Close Published August 14, 2023 CORONAVIRUS, DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

2-1 appeals court ruling will interrupt gender-affirming care for Ky. transgender youth as the new law against it moves through courts

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A federal appeals court panel voted 2-1 last Monday to allow Kentucky to enforce a recently enacted ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth...

By Heather Close Published August 7, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Mobile unit provides addiction recovery, other medical services in Glasgow, Leitchfield, Hodgenville, Bardstown and Lebanon

A drug-recovery company based in Glasgow is using a mobile health-care unit and partnerships with businesses to bring an array of health services to people in the area, Michael Crimmins...

By Heather Close Published August 7, 2023 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

As a drug-resistant fungal disease, Candida auris, adapts to the warmer climate, cases of it rise; up 214% in Kentucky in 2022

Cases of a potentially fatal fungal disease called Candida auris have increased by 1,200 percent since 2017 and the warmer climate could be to blame, Camille Fassett reports for The Associated Press and...

By Heather Close Published August 7, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

Some experts say Alzheimer’s drug is brilliant first step to a cure; others say it’s a waste of money that shortchanges the poor

By Arthur Allen KFF Health News The first drug purporting to slow the advance of Alzheimer’s disease is likely to cost the U.S. health care system billions annually even as...

By Heather Close Published August 3, 2023 FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH

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