Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton led a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the city's ordinance banning smoking in indoor workplace...
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Ticks can't jump but static electricity can thrown them onto hosts-HEALTHYLIVE
Static electric fields naturally produced by animals, humans included, can attract ticks onto their hosts. (Video by England and Lihou, ...
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Kentucky gets $2.25 million to expand restructure reserve corps of medical and non-medical workers who help in times of need -HEALTHYLIVE
Kentucky Health News map from iStock base map By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With a $2.25 million grant, Kentucky will...
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Veterans' advocates tell legislators they need help to prevent veteran suicide; Ky. loses about 118 veterans to suicide per year-HEALTHYLIVE
This story deals with suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Life...
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Backers of laws on transgender care often have misconceptions and misinformation that make details of care hard to understand-HEALTHYLIVE
Movement Advancement Project chart, adapted by KHN; click to enlarge; notes and details are here . By Helen Santoro KFF Health N...
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Nonprofit gets $887152 federal grant to train APRNs clinical social workers and counselors in substance-abuse counseling-HEALTHYLIVE
MCHC has 13 clinics in seven counties. (MCHC/KHN map) Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp. of Whitesburg has received a federal gr...
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Headed to the water? Wear a swimsuit with colors that are easy to see and remember drowning rarely happens as you see it on TV-HEALTHYLIVE
This girl is wearing a swimsuit with contrasting colors, easily seen in the water. (Photo by Alex Bard, iStock/Getty Images Plus) ...
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Matthew Coleman is new director of state Office of Rural Health-HEALTHYLIVE
Matthew Coleman By Beth Bowling University of Kentucky HAZARD, Ky. — Matthew Coleman has been named director of the Kentucky Of...
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Kentucky farmers deal with uncontrollable stressors; there's a mental-health coalition that helps them-HEALTHYLIVE
Sarah Jones poses for a photo a flock of her sheep at he family's Red Hill Farms, which straddles the state line in Allen County a...
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Electronic cigarette sales are way up and so are calls to poison-control centers about children's exposure to the devices-HEALTHYLIVE
Truth Initiative photo By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Electronic cigarette sales are up, and so are calls to poison co...
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Kentucky keeps losing doctors when it needs more of them; in the 2022 fiscal year it had only seven for every eight it had in 2018-HEALTHYLIVE
Ky. Health News graph from UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health data; 2021 Fiscal Year numbers are missing due to the pandemic....
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Nominations sought by Aug. 31 for Dan Martin Award which recognizes a lifetime contribution to rural health in Kentucky-HEALTHYLIVE
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is seeking nominations for the 2022 Dan Martin Award, which honors an individual's lifetime contr...
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Electronic cigarettes get bigger and badder: Sales rose nearly 50% in last 3 years nicotine content went up 76% in last 5 years-HEALTHYLIVE
Disposable e-cigarette sales soared after the Food and Drug Administration banned fruity and minty flavors in cartridge-based devices...
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Herald-Leader digs into idea of using a psychedelic drug to treat opioid-use disorder talks to a Ky. woman about her use of it -HEALTHYLIVE
The head of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission has suggested using up to $42 million of the more than $900 million in settle...
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Abortion providers drop at least for now challenge to state's anti-abortion laws after failing to find a patient to be the plaintiff-HEALTHYLIVE
Planned Parenthood's Louisville health clinic Photo by Deborah Yetter, Kentucky Lantern Kentucky’s two abortion clinics are d...
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