Amended adult-oriented business bill emerges from the Kentucky Senate

WEKU | By Stu Johnson The Kentucky Senate has acted overwhelmingly to increase regulations relating to adult-oriented businesses. Approved amendments include one pertaining to drag shows. The measure, sponsored by GOP Senator Lindsey Tichenor of Smithfield, was amended on the floor to remove the word “drag” from the definition of adult cabaret. Tichenor said this legislation…

Low vision can affect people of all ages, but risk increases as we age; here’s what you should know

By Christian Meyer University of Kentucky Low vision is a term that commonly means partial sight, or sight that isn’t fully correctable with glasses, contact lenses, surgery or medications. Low vision can affect people of all ages, but risk increases as you get older. Common signs/symptoms of low vision include: • Not recognizing faces of family…

Gas stations and EV charging stations the focus of legislation in Frankfort

WEKU | By Stu Johnson Providing fuel to power Kentucky vehicles in the future is the subject of legislation in the General Assembly. GOP Monticello Representative Ken Upchurch is the sponsor of HB 581. He told committee members last week it would, quote, “ensure statewide consistency in an already highly regulated industry.” “By preventing political subdivisions…

Kentucky doctor discusses increase in adolescents being prescribed antidepressants

By Alyssa Williams LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – A recent American Academy of Pediatrics study said teens and young adults are being prescribed more antidepressants at a rate more than 60% higher than it was pre-pandemic. “So you see anything from depression, anxiety, behavioral disturbances, ADHD,” said Dr. Jonathan Martin, a behavioral health specialist at Baptist Health. Martin says…

Bowling Green plans crisis mental health, substance abuse treatment

Proposed $20M facility would bypass law enforcement, judicial, hospital ER systems This community-based leadership team has come up with a solution modeled after a Nashville facility the committee visited last year. With this model, a person in a mental health crisis can receive immediate treatment. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — After assessing approaches to help local residents…

Early detection may help Kentucky tamp down its lung cancer crisis

BY: CHARLOTTE HUFF, KFF HEALTH NEWS Anthony Stumbo’s heart sank after the doctor shared his mother’s chest X-ray. “I remember that drive home, bringing her back home, and we basically cried,” said the internal medicine physician, who had started practicing in eastern Kentucky near his childhood home shortly before his mother began feeling ill. “Nobody wants…

Ky. bill to encourage child care centers through zoning reform moving in legislature

Kentucky Public Radio | By Sylvia Goodman As lawmakers consider ways to bolster child care access in Kentucky, a bill to ease regulatory burdens on child care centers advances through a House committee. Kentucky lawmakers across the political spectrum are struggling to address growing child care deserts and the high cost of early childhood education. Republican…