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A Ky. guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
FDA wants to limit number of hydrocodone refills available without another doctor visit; approves pure version of drug
Kentucky ranks high in prescription drug abuse, but also is a national leader in efforts to fight it, state-by-state analysis says
Middle- and high-school students invited to create 30-second videos discouraging prescription drug abuse, win prizes in contest
Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Safe partners invite Kentucky middle- and high-school students to compete in the annual P...
Fewer teens report using tobacco and abusing prescription drugs, but some attribute latter trend to increase in heroin use
Fighting prescription drug abuse? Save your spot for 'The Difference Faces of Substance Abuse' conference Jan. 28-29
Conway says ruling in his Oxycontin lawsuit means he will seek settlement of $100 million or more
As heroin use increases in Kentucky, new report shows its strong connections to abusers of prescription pain medicines
Kentucky's law-enforcement agences, policymakers and public-health advocates have taken serious measures to curb the state's rampant...
Kentucky expands list of permanent locations for safe disposal of unneeded or expired prescription medications
Obama and allies tout preventive-services and drug benefits of health-reform law to Medicare beneficiaries in Ky.
The federal health-reform law has made drugs more affordable for seniors, broadened coverage for preventive services and made Medicare more ...
Beshear, Stumbo credit law for reducing prescription-drug deaths, but reduction was far outnumbered by rise in heroin fatalities
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As prescription painkillers become harder to get and abuse, heroin replaces them in Eastern and Southern Kentucky
Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
Could Medicare Part D be an inadvertent enabler of prescription drug abuse?
Spring-clean the cabinet and dump your drugs Saturday, April 27
FDA requires OxyContin pills to be non-crushable to deter abuse
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it would block generic, crushable versions of OxyContin from coming to the market an...
National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, a Kentucky product, seeks to make the nation face up to its problem
Poll shows health care costs are a burden for many Kentuckians
A recent statewide survey shows health-care costs are a burden for many Kentuckians, especially for those who are poor and don't have in...
Most Kentucky adults don't know that drug overdose is the leading cause of death in the state, but those in the east do
Legislature eases physician assistant rules; nurse practitioners' prescription power, Medicaid prompt-payment bills, others linger
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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...
