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Kentucky spends only 7.6 percent of what it should spend on preventing the use of tobacco, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its latest annual report...
Kentucky’s supply of mental-health services is much lower than demand for those services, in terms of state funding, and the state spends only 45 percent of the national average in mental-health...
Funding and job cuts as a result of the economic recession have weakened the impact public health departments have on their communities, says a series of articles published in the...
Many school districts are reportedly opting out of a new federal pilot program that provides free breakfast and lunch to all students attending schools where poverty rates are high. They...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News After dealing with the aftermath of 9/11, an anthrax scare, H1N1 flu, the worst ice storm in Kentucky’s history and a series of budget...
“Florida Gov. Rick Scott reversed course Thursday and said he will allow a prescription drug monitoring program that Kentucky officials have demanded to help block the flow of illegal prescription...
Kentucky officials continue to rail against Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to cancel his state’s prescription-drug monitoring program, a move they argue would keep the pipeline open for Kentucky dealers who...
The new Florida governor’s plan to scuttle a yet-to-start program to monitor painkiller prescriptions “has sparked an uproar in Appalachian states that say they are deluged with illegally bought pills...
New numbers show revenues to Kentucky’s General Fund, which pays for most state services besides roads, increased 5.4 percent since July 1, but money from the state’s cigarette tax declined...
The “pill pipeline” from Florida to Central Appalachia and other regions has not been closed despite the passage of laws in Florida to tighten controls on prescription painkillers, Bill Estep...