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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...
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
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...
Medical licensure board changing rules to focus more on painkillers; fewer urine tests for patients, fewer reports for doctors
Patients in long-term treatment with controlled substances won't have to have their urine tested for drugs unless they are on painkiller...
State officials appear to be overstating successes of new prescription-drug law, The Courier-Journal reports
There's new criticism from Kentucky's doctors in an analysis of the state's four-month old prescription drug law, showing that a...
Democratic ads accuse Republicans of supporting pill mills by voting against bill that all agree needs work
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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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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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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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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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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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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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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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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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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
