Health Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Feb 26

Health

“Lax Oversight” Threatens Health Fund for Miners With Black Lung, Watchdog Finds

Just three bankruptcies of American coal companies have added more than $800 million in costs to a federal government program that funds health care for disabled coal miners, the Government Accountability said in a report released Wednesday. The report comes after a 2018 analysis by the same agency which found the Black Lung Disability Trust […]

By Sydney Boles

Feb 26

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“Lax Oversight” Threatens Health Fund for Miners With Black Lung, Watchdog Finds

By Sydney Boles

Feb 21

Health

Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change

Lynn Estel Stanley was the kind of coal mine foreman who wanted to know if there was a safety problem, and would always be the one to go fix it himself. He was also the kind of miner who refused to slow down, even when his men told him he was overexerting himself. But when […]

By Sydney Boles

Feb 21

Health

Black Lung Benefits Drop For Kentucky Coal Miners After Controversial Law Change

Sydney Boles

Feb 7

Health

Reports Show Challenges Remain In Addiction Treatment Medication Access

Center for Disease Control and Prevention data indicate opioid overdose deaths in the Ohio Valley declined in 2018, the first time in nearly a decade. Researchers say this is cause for optimism. But two new studies warn that access to medication assisted treatment, or MAT, for people with opioid use disorders continues to be a […]

By Aaron Payne

Feb 7

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Reports Show Challenges Remain In Addiction Treatment Medication Access

Aaron Payne

Feb 6

Health

Survey: Americans Agree Health Care System Needs Fixing

Americans are divided on lots of issues. But a new national survey finds that people across the political spectrum agree on at least one thing: Our health care system needs fixing. The “Hidden Common Ground” survey from Public Agenda, USA Today and Ipsos found that 92 percent of Americans say changes are needed. And a […]

By Christine Herman

Feb 6

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Survey: Americans Agree Health Care System Needs Fixing

Christine Herman

Feb 5

Health

Scientists, Mine Safety Officials Discuss Black Lung Protections

Officials with the Mine Safety and Health Administration met for the first time with miners’ health researchers Wednesday in a new partnership designed to discuss ways to better protect coal miners from the dust that causes black lung disease. In future meetings, representatives from the two agencies will discuss recommendations made by the National Academy […]

By Sydney Boles

Feb 5

Health

Scientists, Mine Safety Officials Discuss Black Lung Protections

Sydney Boles

Jan 30

Health

Report Finds Many Ohio Valley Communities At Deep Disadvantage in Health, Wealth

A new report finds the Ohio Valley has some of the most disadvantaged communities in the country. The study comes from the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions, an initiative to eliminate or alleviate poverty through action-based research. The “Index of Deep Disadvantage” combines measures of income, health outcomes, and social mobility, or the factors affecting […]

By Becca Schimmel

Jan 30

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Report Finds Many Ohio Valley Communities At Deep Disadvantage in Health, Wealth

Becca Schimmel

Jan 9

Health

Rural Americans Increasingly Concerned About Opioid Addiction, Study Finds

Researchers at Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that rural Americans identified drug addiction and economic concerns as the most serious problems facing their communities. The open-ended survey of 2700 rural adults aimed to identify the major concerns of rural voters, and found that 25 percent of rural Americans said drug addiction was […]

By Sydney Boles

Jan 9

Health

Rural Americans Increasingly Concerned About Opioid Addiction, Study Finds

Sydney Boles

Dec 20

Health

Innovating Recovery: Group Highlights New Approaches To Addiction Crisis

After years of leading the nation in overdose death rates, Ohio Valley communities are looking for new ways to deal with the addiction crisis. A national nonprofit organization promotes and partners with programs that do just that. The Addiction Policy Forum celebrated new ideas at events in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia to honor programs […]

By Aaron Payne

Dec 20

Health

Innovating Recovery: Group Highlights New Approaches To Addiction Crisis

Aaron Payne

Dec 10

Health

Study Shows Surface Coal Miners Are Exposed To Toxic Dust That Causes Black Lung

Appalachian surface coal miners are consistently overexposed to toxic silica dust, according to new research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and surface mine dust contains more silica than does dust in underground coal mines. The research is the first to specifically analyze long-term data on exposure to toxic silica dust for […]

By Sydney Boles

Dec 10

Health

Study Shows Surface Coal Miners Are Exposed To Toxic Dust That Causes Black Lung

Sydney Boles

Dec 6

Health

Mountain Air: Youth Help Identify Causes Of Ohio Valley’s High Lung Disease Rates

Isabella Back, 18, pulls her jacket tight around herself as she crosses the gravel driveway. “So we’re going about 10 feet from my house to my dad’s workshop,” she says, and pushes through a door in a big, red barn. The Kona, Kentucky, shop is crowded with cluttered work tables and hulking machines, and the […]

By Sydney Boles

Dec 6

Health

Mountain Air: Youth Help Identify Causes Of Ohio Valley’s High Lung Disease Rates

Sydney Boles