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Study: Social factors keep women from getting mammograms
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says the more health-related social needs a woman has, the less likely she is to get a ...
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Website helps Kentuckians find addiction help, Narcan
The state’s FindHelpNowKy.org website, which helps Kentuckians find addiction treatment, now also can help them find places to get naloxone, which reverses opioid overdose. The ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, March 18, 2024 12:34 pm
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Health commissioner warns not enough Kentuckians are vaccinated against measles
In a wide-ranging TV interview, state Health Commissioner Steven Stack warned Kentuckians that not enough of them are vaccinated for measles, which he said is ...
by Kentucky Health News, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 11:32 am
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Bills aim to stop people from coming to Ky. to have Medicaid pay for addiction treatment
A bill aimed at preventing people from coming to Kentucky solely to establish residency so that they can sign up for drug treatment to be ...
by Kentucky Health News, Tuesday, February 27, 2024 4:54 pm
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West Ky. county sees third fentanyl death in seven months
After three fentanyl overdoses since June in Crittenden County, the first recorded in the county of 9,000 people, and another death in which fentanyl could ...
by Kentucky Health News, Friday, February 9, 2024 10:42 am
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American Cancer Society wants state to increase funding for smoking cessation and prevention
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network will ask legislators in the upcoming General Assembly session to spend a lot more on tobacco prevention and ...
by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, December 21, 2023 2:52 pm
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Abortion-rights lawsuit needs a new plaintiff, ACLU of Ky. says
Abortion-rights advocates are seeking a new plaintiff for their Kentucky class-action lawsuit because the plaintiff, who was eight weeks pregnant, “learned her embryo no longer ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, December 18, 2023 7:40 am
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Kentucky Hospital Association says its annual survey shows state continues to have an ‘acute shortage’ of health care workers
The Kentucky Hospital Association‘s annual Workforce Survey Report says Kentucky suffers from an “acute shortage” of health care workers, with nearly 13,000 job vacancies in ...
by Kentucky Health News, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:51 pm
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State’s weekly respiratory-virus update shows hospitalizations of Kentucky children for RSV are increasing
The state Department for Public Health’s weekly respiratory virus update, released Thursday, Nov. 2, showed that Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity was moderate, ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, November 6, 2023 10:30 am
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One-fourth of Kentuckians say they have been diagnosed with depression
One in four Kentucky adults in a poll taken in 2020 said they had ever been diagnosed with depression, a higher share than in any ...