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Not everything on Gov. Bill Lee’s wish list made it into the state budget this year, but lawmakers did sign off on his plan to invest in access to health care for rural Tennesseans.
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With roughly eight months until the next session, some lawmakers and attorneys disagree on what protections exist for IVF under current Kentucky law.
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A bipartisan plan to expand health care access and education for new mothers cleared a Kentucky House committee Thursday.
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Twenty-one Kentucky lawmakers are sponsoring legislation to make fluoride optional in the state’s drinking water systems. The legislation overwhelmingly passed a committee vote Thursday.
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More than 43,000 Tennesseans are expected to be diagnosed with cancer this year, according to new projections by the American Cancer Society which placed the Volunteer State among the top ten in the country for rates of the most common forms of the disease.
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Legislators in Kentucky's House of Representatives are considering a bill that would remove out-of-pocket costs for follow-up diagnostic breast exams, as well as supplemental breast exams when medically necessary.
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A House bill unanimously passed out of a committee yesterday (Thursday) will enable Kentucky pharmacies to continue vaccinating children ages 5-17 with parental or guardian consent.
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A Kentucky Democrat introduced legislation Wednesday that would repeal years’ worth of anti-abortion laws and add protections for people who get abortions out-of-state.
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A new legislative proposal would require Kentucky Medicaid to cover certain midwife services. It just cleared its first hurdle.
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Democrats in Kentucky’s legislature are pushing for exceptions to the state’s near total abortion ban. At the same time, Republicans and anti-abortion activists are pushing into new legislative frontiers to promote a “culture of life.”
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Tennessee ranks in the bottom five states for psychiatric bed space, according to a new report by the Treatment Advocacy Center.
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Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman knew for a long time that one day she might learn cancer was at her door. So she “wasn’t shocked” when, in September, a routine mammogram — her first — concerned her health care provider.