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Northern Kentucky health board supports statewide smoking ban
The main health board in Northern Kentucky, where local smoking bans have stirred much controversy. has endorsed the idea of a statewide ban...
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As health care expands and more providers are needed, pressure grows to allow nurse practitioners more prescribing authority
Poll shows strong support for medical marijuana in Kentucky
Legislature eases physician assistant rules; nurse practitioners' prescription power, Medicaid prompt-payment bills, others linger
Bill encouraging schools to stock EpiPens to stop deadly allergic reactions will become law
A bill encouraging Kentucky schools to stock EpiPens, or epinephrine auto-injectors, to stop anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reacti...
Smoking ban gets 'a good scrubbing' before Judiciary Committee
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The bill for a statewide smoking ban is favored by three-fifths of Kentucky adults , but is dead for this s...
Legislature sends fix of last year's pill-mill bill to Beshear
"After more than a year of debate, a bill that would revamp Kentucky’s prescription-drug law to more strictly focus on pill abuse and ...
House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky's health care. House Bill 217 addresses some ...
Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky's struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
Bill for statewide smoking ban appears to have been extinguished
The bill to enact a statewide smoking ban in Kentucky appears to be dead for this session of the General Assembly. The House sent House Bill...
House panel approves bill easing rules of 2012's pill-mill bill
They could call it the pill they're taking to fix the pill-mill bill. A state House committee approved a bill Tuesday that would tweak l...
Bill to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay up, and more promptly, nears final form in House and will get attention in Senate
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The complaints by many health-care providers about Medicare managed-care firms' dela...
Bill to shield nursing homes from lawsuits clears Senate along party lines; not looking healthy in House despite TV, radio ads
Last week the state Senate approved on party lines a bill that would make lawsuits against nursing homes go through a review panel first. Re...
Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban
Gov. Steve Beshear endorsed a statewide smoking ban yesterday at a Frankfort rally to push the bill that would enact the ban. "Beshear,...
Senate advances bill to allow Christian heath coverage cooperative back into Kentucky
Without dissent, the state Senate approved a bill Wednesday, Feb. 13, that would grant Christian health cost-sharing organization Medi-Share...
Nursing homes push for lawsuit protection with fast-moving bill and broadcast ads; newspaper editorials excoriate sponsor, industry
A state Senate committee has approved a bill that would require lawsuits against nursing homes to clear a review panel before going to cour...
Statewide smoking ban close to House vote, Stumbo says
For the second straight year, the state House Health and Welfare Committee has approved a bill that would ban smoking in enclosed public pla...
Beshear calls for action to improve state's health, but says only that 'It's time for us to begin looking seriously' at a smoking ban
Physician assistants and some doctors urge lawmakers to pass bill that could ease provider shortage in rural Kentucky
Doctors and more than 150 physician-assistant students urged lawmakers Tuesday to pass a bill they stated involves dropping only one requir...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding...
