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FDA wants to limit number of hydrocodone refills available without another doctor visit; approves pure version of drug
Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
Prescription drugs killing more women than ever; Kentucky ties for fifth for its high percentage of deaths
Deadly, recalled pills still circulating in Pennyrile Region
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
FDA likely to make hydrocodone painkillers harder to prescribe
Prescription painkillers containing hydrocodone should be placed in a more restrictive federal category, a Food and Drug Administration ad...
Poll shows depth of prescription drug abuse in Kentucky
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Painkiller epidemic was driven in part by drug makers' financial relationships with researchers who discounted the risks
For almost a decade, medical officials and experts claimed OxyContin rarely posed problems of addiction for patients. The drug's label, ...
Generic OxyContin and Opana, headed for market soon, could make fight against pain-pill abuse tougher, McConnell says
With generic versions of the two most commonly-abused painkillers, Opana and OxyContin, coming on the market next year, police, hospitals an...
UK music therapy helps manage surgical anxiety, pain, recovery
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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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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... -
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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Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur... -
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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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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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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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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FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...
