First Opioid Abatement Settlement Commission meeting under new leader draws big crowd, largely to support ibogaine study
The new director didn’t want to get into ibogaine at his first meeting – but the audience did.
Kentucky Health News
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Republicans, it’s time to stop sniveling
Kentucky Republicans have looked more traditional than Trumpian – at least, until the recent RPK resolution. Al Cross says it’s time for the Trumpers to stop.
Legislative bills would improve access to women’s period products
Similar bills have been filed in the past, but did not get passed.
Health issues on the table for upcoming KYGA
Legislators expect to address youth vaping, maternal mortality, insurance issues and maybe abortion in upcoming session
Beshear defends pandemic work as Cameron cites learning loss, makes false claim about founder of Planned Parenthood
Lots of back and forth, with Cameron repeatedly saying Beshear was lying.
Sen. Stephen Meredith calls for new health-care delivery system
He wants to use Medicaid block grants to local governments to fund the system.
Legislators nix Beshear’s second attempt at expanding Medicaid services
The Beshear reg expanded dental, vision and hearing services for Medicaid patients. it'll remain in place for now.
Annual overdose deaths in Kentucky fell for first time in four years
Provisional data gathered by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center shows that 2,127 Kentuckians died of overdose in 2022, 5 percent less than the 2021 figure of 2,257.
New rules aim to stop deceptive Medicare Advantage marketing
If you are old enough, you have no doubt been inundated with calls and mail about Medicare Advantage. Some of these are deceptive, and CMS wants to end the deception.
Kentucky legislature scraps new Medicaid benefits for dental, vision, hearing care
Governor Beshear says he will find another way to provide the care.
House health chair says anti-trans bill will worsen state’s health-workforce shortage, chill doctors’ dealings with young patients
The Republican chair of the House health committee testified against HB 470, and then voted against it.
Rural Americans are the most likely to say the pandemic is over, and least likely to take precautions against it
Though the coronavirus remains entrenched [https://www.blogger.com/#] in rural areas, rural Americans are more likely than their suburban or urban peers to have rejected or given up on social distancing, masking and/or vaccinations. "They feel, in short, that the pandemic is 'over,'" Olga
