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Michael King Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Add Comment Edit

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Fort Campbell soldier who went AWOL, and says his Kentucky PTSD treatment was inadequate, is set to return to Afghanistan

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Kentucky doctors' offices are the least digitized in the country; increase expected nationwide

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State legislator wants to mandate drug testing for recipients of Medicaid, food stamps and other entitlements

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Williams says he supports a statewide smoking ban

State Senate President David Williams expressed firm support for the proposed statewide smoking ban at the Kentucky Press Association 's...
New program aims to get more physicians practicing in rural Ky.

A new program in Morehead aims to get more physicians practicing in rural areas and improve access to health care. The Rural Physician Leade...
As debt deepens and auditors arrive, Adair County hospital CEO resigns and is apparently escorted from the building

The CEO of Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia "resigned Monday morning and was apparently escorted out of the hospital," repo...
Lobbying on bills to require prescriptions for meds like pseudoephedrine intensifies in Kentucky and West Virginia

The lobbying battle over meds and meth is ramping up in Kentucky and West Virginia, with business interests weighing in against it in Kentuc...
Rural teens more likely to abuse prescription meds; Operation UNITE launches 'Accidental Dealer' to guard medicine cabinets

A University of Kentucky study has shown rural teenagers in Kentucky are 26 percent more likely to abuse prescription drugs than those liv...
Faith-based alliances may be exempt from health-insurance mandate; Kentucky court case part of national question

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Florida is slow to close valves on 'pill pipeline'

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