Nineteen protesters opposing Senate Bill 150 in the gallery were arrested as the House voted to overrode the veto of a bill to ban gen...
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Coronavirus cases up 8.7% over prior week; Covid-19 deaths fall, but remain above month's average; state attributed 49 last week-HEALTHYLIVE
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Ne...
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Almost all of Kentucky has a low risk of Covid-19, CDC says; N.Y. Times ends daily data reporting, citing frequency of states' data-HEALTHYLIVE
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All but five of Kentucky's 120 countie...
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All 45 and older should be screened for colon cancer, earlier if you have family history of it; Ky. has made much progress against it-HEALTHYLIVE
Colon Cancer Prevention Project graphic Ky. Health News March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which serves to remind everyo...
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Beshear vetoes bill that would ban gender-affirming care for Kentuckians under 18; Republicans are expected to override it-HEALTHYLIVE
Gov. Andy Beshear (State photos) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a far-reaching bill that wo...
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Legislature takes away Medicaid dental, vision and hearing benefits Beshear granted; he indicates he will do it another way-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In October, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear announced the expansion of dental, vision and hearing ben...
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Opinon: Gender dysphoria may have a basis in human biology -HEALTHYLIVE
By Kimberly Kennedy Most of us witnessed with horror the passage of anti-transgender bill SB150 by legislators who ignored overwhelming op...
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Beshear bans sale of products with tianeptine, unapproved drug with opioid-like effects that has caused overdoses and deaths-HEALTHYLIVE
Some of the products that contain tianeptine (Photo from Center for Science in the Public Interest ) Gov. Andy Beshear has signed...
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Seats available at Mar. 28 Recovery in the Workplace Conference-HEALTHYLIVE
Author Sam Quiñones at an earlier Chamber conference The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce is hosting its fifth annual Recovery in the...
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New coronavirus cases dropped again last week in Kentucky, but state-recorded deaths from Covid-19 have another weekly jump-HEALTHYLIVE
N.Y. Times map of new-case rates has Menifee County as a hot spot. By Melissa Patrick Ky. Health News Last week, new coronavirus...
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Get prepared now for Medicaid renewals, Kentucky-HEALTHYLIVE
By Kennan Wethington President, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kentucky When Covid-19 hit three years ago, the federal government r...
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How to create a successful fitness plan this spring-HEALTHYLIVE
Photo from PeopleImages | iStock / Getty Images Plus By Dr. Robert G. Hosey University of Kentucky Scientists have found that r...
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Legislature passes bill aimed at preventing doctor burnout by saying they don't have to report seeking mental-health treatment-HEALTHYLIVE
Photo from Getty Images via Kentucky Lantern By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern A bill aimed at preventing burnout among physician...
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Kentucky legislature sends governor a bill to regulate Delta-8 THC-HEALTHYLIVE
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to a court decision last ...
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George Rawlings, who founded industry that recovers health-care costs from patients who get settlements or judgments, dies at 77-HEALTHYLIVE
George Rawlings George Rawlings, who made a fortune by starting an industry that recovers health-care providers' costs of cari...
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Vast majority of Kentucky continues to have low risk of Covid-19-HEALTHYLIVE
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maps, adapted by Kentucky Health News By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All but...
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Former state health commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson is the new board chair of the Trust for America's Health-HEALTHYLIVE
Dr. Stephanie Mayfield Gibson Dr. Stephanie Mayfield Gibson, who was state health commissioner in 2012-15, is the new board chair ...
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Bill to address postpartum depression and other maternal mental-health problems has passed and awaits the governor's action -HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ensure greater access to information and resources for mental-health care before and af...
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Ernie Scott of Letcher County dies of a rare brain aneurysm at 46; had been director of the State Office of Rural Health since 2013-HEALTHYLIVE
Ernie Lee Scott Funeral services were held Friday for Ernie Scott, who was director of the State Office of Rural Health in the Un...
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