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- New Health-related Laws Deal With Heroin, Dating Violence, End-of-life Care, Prescriptions, Colon-cancer And Newborn Screening
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. ? The Kentucky General Assembly passed several health-related bills this session, including high-profile measures on heroin and dating violence. It did not pass many others, including one that would...
- Senate Oks Bill To Fund Pediatric Cancer And Autism Research
With the backing of Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate has passed a bill designed to assist in funding research of pediatric cancer and autism, funded by money now used to pay for presidential campaigns and party conventions. The proposed...
- Markey Cancer Center At Uk Gets National Cancer Institute Designation, Opening Up New Treatment Options For Patients
The University of Kentucky annouced Friday that its Markey Cancer Center has earned a prestigious National Cancer Institute designation. With this designation, the center becomes one of 68 in the U.S., and the only one in Kentucky, with special access...
- First Lady Didn't Donate To Breast Cancer Fund; Gov. Beshear Announces Collaboration To Fight Many Cancers
Though First Lady Jane Beshear made headlines Monday when it was discovered neither she nor Gov. Steve Beshear had checked off a donation box to support breast cancer research on their state income tax returns ? something the first lady has encouraged...
- Children's Cancer Foundation Founder Honored
It?s not uncommon for people, sometimes strangers, to come up and hug Shirley Howard. After all, for many pediatric oncology patients and their families, she is a guardian angel. For more than 30 years, Howard has been a tireless advocate and fund raiser...
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Legislative freshmen's bipartisan bill, now law, lets tax refund to go to pediatric cancer research, or part of it to rape crisis centers
Gov. Steve Beshear held a ceremonial signing Aug. 12 of a bill that creates a option on individual state income-tax returns to divert refunds for the study and treatment of pediatric cancer. ?Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children,? Beshear noted.
From 2008-2012, Kentucky had approximately 200 cases each year of cancer among people up to the age of 19, according to the National Cancer Institute.
?This legislation will fuel innovative pediatric cancer research being done here at the University of Kentucky and will directly benefit some of the sickest children in the Commonwealth,? said Dr. Michael Karpf, UK's executive vice president for health affairs. ?Thanks to this bill, now all Kentuckians will have the opportunity to advance pediatric cancer research.?
The bill was sponsored by freshman Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, whose young son is a pediatric cancer survivor. It became law June 24. Wise said he dedicated the bill ?to the families who have been affected or are dealing with pediatric cancer,? and called it a testament to legislative bipartisanship.
The bill also allows individuals to designate a portion of their tax refund to a new trust fund to support rape crisis centers, incorporating legislation sponsored by freshman Rep. Chris Harris, D-Forest Hills (Pike County).
From 2008-2012, Kentucky had approximately 200 cases each year of cancer among people up to the age of 19, according to the National Cancer Institute.
?This legislation will fuel innovative pediatric cancer research being done here at the University of Kentucky and will directly benefit some of the sickest children in the Commonwealth,? said Dr. Michael Karpf, UK's executive vice president for health affairs. ?Thanks to this bill, now all Kentuckians will have the opportunity to advance pediatric cancer research.?
The bill was sponsored by freshman Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, whose young son is a pediatric cancer survivor. It became law June 24. Wise said he dedicated the bill ?to the families who have been affected or are dealing with pediatric cancer,? and called it a testament to legislative bipartisanship.
The bill also allows individuals to designate a portion of their tax refund to a new trust fund to support rape crisis centers, incorporating legislation sponsored by freshman Rep. Chris Harris, D-Forest Hills (Pike County).
- New Health-related Laws Deal With Heroin, Dating Violence, End-of-life Care, Prescriptions, Colon-cancer And Newborn Screening
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. ? The Kentucky General Assembly passed several health-related bills this session, including high-profile measures on heroin and dating violence. It did not pass many others, including one that would...
- Senate Oks Bill To Fund Pediatric Cancer And Autism Research
With the backing of Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate has passed a bill designed to assist in funding research of pediatric cancer and autism, funded by money now used to pay for presidential campaigns and party conventions. The proposed...
- Markey Cancer Center At Uk Gets National Cancer Institute Designation, Opening Up New Treatment Options For Patients
The University of Kentucky annouced Friday that its Markey Cancer Center has earned a prestigious National Cancer Institute designation. With this designation, the center becomes one of 68 in the U.S., and the only one in Kentucky, with special access...
- First Lady Didn't Donate To Breast Cancer Fund; Gov. Beshear Announces Collaboration To Fight Many Cancers
Though First Lady Jane Beshear made headlines Monday when it was discovered neither she nor Gov. Steve Beshear had checked off a donation box to support breast cancer research on their state income tax returns ? something the first lady has encouraged...
- Children's Cancer Foundation Founder Honored
It?s not uncommon for people, sometimes strangers, to come up and hug Shirley Howard. After all, for many pediatric oncology patients and their families, she is a guardian angel. For more than 30 years, Howard has been a tireless advocate and fund raiser...