CDC says certain people in Bourbon, Henderson, Nicholas and Union counties should mask up in indoor public spaces-HEALTHYLIVE

CDC map shows Union, Henderson, Bourbon and Nicholas counties with a medium level of Covid-19. By Al Cross Kentucky Health News ...

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OPINION: Insurers say killing bill hospitals, pharmacists backed against pharmacy benefit managers saved Kentuckians money-HEALTHYLIVE

By Tom Stephens Executive Director, Kentucky Association of Health Care Plans Pocketbook issues were front and center in this most recent ...

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USA Today reports on its analysis of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes last winter, with a focus on Trilogy Health Services-HEALTHYLIVE

Some Trilogy Health Services residents who died of Covid-19 (Photos contributed to USA Today) USA Today recently published its fi...

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Coronavirus positive-test rate in Ky. rose from 3.12% to 4.35% last week, even as cases and Covid-19 hospital numbers dropped-HEALTHYLIVE

Kentucky Health News map with Dept. for Public Health data on GISGeography base map By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Th...

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First phase of $87 million HEALing Communities Study to address opioid epidemic has touched thousands of Kentuckians-HEALTHYLIVE

UK's Sharon Walsh, Carrie Oser and Amanda Fallin-Bennett, along with the Clark County Health Department's Jennifer Gulley (...

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Tick season nears. 10% of ticks carry debilitating diseases; quick action can prevent them. And UK wants you to send in your ticks!-HEALTHYLIVE

Lucie Conchou works in UK entomologist Zainulabeuddin Syed’s lab. (Photo by Matt Barton) Kentucky Health News Ticks are a thre...

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Latest CDC map shows all of Kentucky has low level of Covid-19-HEALTHYLIVE

CDC map shows all of Kentucky in green, for low levels of Covid-19 transmission.  By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Every ...

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Appalachian Food for Health Diabetes Prevention virtual event is Tuesday, April 26; it's free, but registration is required-HEALTHYLIVE

The fourth Appalachian Food for Health Diabetes Prevention event will take place Tuesday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. The virtua...

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One stable at Keeneland focuses on addiction recovery while offering instruction on the basics of horsemanship-HEALTHYLIVE

Will Walden and Tyler Maxwell of Ready Made Racing at Keeneland on April 2. ( Photo by Silas Walker, Lexington Herald-Leader) Ja...

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Albert B. Chandler Hospital at UK opened 60 years ago today-HEALTHYLIVE

The latest Chandler Hospital is on Limestone Street. By Kristi Willett University of Kentucky Sixty years ago today, the Albert...

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Beshear says he is looking at ways to bring medical marijuana to Ky. by executive action, while seeking public's opinion on topic-HEALTHYLIVE

Business Insider map provided by Beshear's office, adapted by Ky. Health News By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After...

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Judge blocks state's new anti-abortion law, pending study-HEALTHYLIVE

Kentucky Health News A federal judge has blocked Kentucky's broad, new anti-abortion law , saying it has so many restrictions that she...

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Free academy at Pikeville June 12-25 will introduce rising high-school seniors and juniors in Appalachian Kentucky to nursing-HEALTHYLIVE

The regional development group Shaping our Appalachian Region and the state Department for Public Health ’s Office of Health Equity are ho...

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Kentucky gets $4.19 million to expand AmeriCorps work in public health, with the hope it will funnel more people into such work-HEALTHYLIVE

Kentucky has received nearly $4.2 million to expand the public-health role of the AmeriCorps program in the state. The grant comes from ...

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Kentucky highway fatalities rose again in 2021, by 3%; once more, most of those killed were not wearing their seat belt-HEALTHYLIVE

Deaths from highway accidents in Kentucky rose 3.3 percent last year, according to the State Police and the Transportation Cabinet . But so...

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Coronavirus cases and positive-test rate in Kentucky are rising, but deaths and hospital numbers are declining more -HEALTHYLIVE

Kentucky Health News chart from state data By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Daily cases and the share of Kentuckians testi...

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Cancer plagues Appalachia, so a UK program brings high-school and college students from the region into the study of it-HEALTHYLIVE

The nation's highest cancer rates are in Appalachia, especially in Appalachian Kentucky. But the state is also home to an effort to get ...

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Foes of new abortion law called 'one of the most restrictive in the nation' are awaiting federal court rulings in lawsuits challenging it-HEALTHYLIVE

Rep. Randy Bridges, R-Paducah, gives a thumbs down to abortion advocates who chanted "Bans off our bodies" at the state Capi...

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