by Terry DeMio, [email protected] – Alert: Naloxone isn’t working on several recent ODs. Be on alert: A spike in overdoses in Hamilton County emergency rooms coupled with a lack of effectiveness of the antidote naloxone is leading health officials to believe that deadly opioids are getting to heroin users. The Hamilton County Heroin Coalition issued the…
by Andrew Wolfson, @adwolfson – Five things to know after James Ramsey was ousted as president of University of Louisville. In another attack on the University of Louisville’s vaunted spinal cord research program, a former neurosurgery professor says in a lawsuit that he was fired in retaliation for reporting patient care and safety issues to the federal…
by Tom Loftus, @TomLoftus_CJ – FRANKFORT, Ky. – Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd on Monday temporarily restored Thomas Elliott as a member of the Kentucky Retirement Systems Board of Trustees and scolded the Bevin administration for using “lawless, strong arm tactics” to block Elliott from participating in a board meeting in May. But in the same 20-page order, Shepherd…
Historic Eagle Rest Plantation to be used as a research and laboratory farm to benefit students and agricultural programs. Long-time District Judge, attorney and farmer, Jimmy Don Robinson, donated his 534-acre farm and two homes in Ballard County, known as Eagle Rest Plantation, to the Murray State Foundation, Inc. to benefit the Hutson School of Agriculture,…
