by GREG DAVIS – It seems you can’t turn on a radio or TV without hearing the terms precision or personalized medicine; but do you really know what all that entails? This week there’s a special conference at the University of Kentucky covering the essential elements of the personalized medicine approach: therapeutics, outcomes, discovery and delivery. …
by Michon Windstorm – A group of hospital officials are behind a new non-profit policy group pushing for comprehensive healthcare tax reform. The group Balanced Health Kentucky’s goal is a change in the state healthcare tax code to help fund the nearly $300 million shortfall the Medicaid system is facing—in order to save Medicaid expansion. The…
Louisville police made nearly 2,700 DUI arrests in 2013, the last full year before Uber and Lyft began operating here. But those citations began to fall the next year and have been below 1,400 each of the last two years. by Jason Riley – LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – In the last four years, impaired driving…
by Eleanor Klibanoff – The former top attorney for Kentucky’s community college system, who left after an unsubstantiated sexual harassment allegation and settlement, is running for circuit judge. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting first reported on J. Campbell “Cam” Cantrill III in 2016, when he took a one-year special assignment that paid more than $137,000.…
by Phillip M. Bailey, Louisville Courier Journal – Former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino talked with Courier Journal’s Danielle Lerner about his new book. Louisville Courier Journal Matt Bevin is a “religious zealot” who led a movement to oust Tom Jurich because the governor was unhappy with the KFC Yum Center deal, according to former men’s basketball…
by Sarah Riley, Louisville Courier Journal – The United States isn’t the best country in which to be a girl, according to a report by Save the Children. Sweden ranked the best place for young females to live, while Niger finished at the bottom. The U.S. was rated 32nd on the 144-country list. Wochit A new…
by The Associated Press – BARDSTOWN, KY. — Bardstown Bourbon Company has become the newest distillery to join the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. The Kentucky Distillers’ Association says the Nelson County distillery becomes the 14th destination on the trail, which hosted more than one million visits for the second year in a row in 2017. David Mandell,…
by Annie Andersen – WILMORE, KY (Spectrum News) — Voting in this coming election will be a little easier for Kentucky’s veterans. In front of dozens of veterans at the Thompson-Hood Veterans Center, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced all four veterans centers in Kentucky would become polling precincts. Grimes says this has been something…
By Lisa Gillespie – A consumer advocacy group is asking the federal government to halt a clinical trial that will involve patients at the University of Kentucky. The nonprofit group Public Citizen sent a letter Tuesday to the federal Office for Human Research Protections, raising concerns about a trial to measure two treatments for sepsis, the…
The Kentucky Medical Association (KMA) presented its Debra K. Best Outstanding Layperson Award to Representative Kim Moser of Taylor Mill during the Leadership Dinner at the 2018 KMA Annual Meeting. The award is given to a non-physician or group in Kentucky who has made outstanding contributions in the field of public health and/or medical care.…