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Mobile abortion clinic coming close to Kentucky border

KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Planned Parenthood plans to start a mobile abortion clinic in Illinois that will travel close to the borders of Kentucky and other ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:02 am

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Research into causes of farmer suicide expands to include nurses, young people

AL CROSS Kentucky Health News An initiative that was originally designed to address farmer suicide has expanded to address mental health issues and suicide among ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, September 29, 2022 3:25 pm

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Life expectancy for Kentuckians dropped in 2019-20

KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS One of the most striking measures of the pandemic is the decline in life expectancy from 2019 to 2020, the year the ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Monday, August 29, 2022 1:19 pm

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Meth use increases chances of non-fatal opioid overdose

KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Nearly 80 percent of recreational drug users in rural areas have taken methamphetamines in the past month, according to a newly published ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Tuesday, August 23, 2022 11:09 am

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UK to host rural health symposium

KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Health-care practitioners and people interested in rural health policy are invited to attend a wide-ranging symposium on rural health issues Friday, Aug. ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Monday, August 22, 2022 5:14 pm

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Covid metrics up across Kentucky

MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News All measures of Covid-19 in Kentucky kept rising last week, with new cases up 24 percent, with a higher share ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Friday, July 29, 2022 8:23 am

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Don’t look now, but Covid clinics making a comeback

Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Eight Kentucky health departments are participating in the “Kentucky Covid-19 Vaccine Extravaganza” in July and August to get more Kentuckians ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Monday, July 25, 2022 3:43 pm

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Doctors worry about vagueness of Kentucky abortion ban exception

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Federal officials have issued guidance in an attempt to clarify when health-care providers can perform an abortion in states ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Monday, July 18, 2022 2:03 pm

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Deaths in Kentucky by alcohol, drugs, suicide skyrocketed during pandemic

Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the first year of the pandemic, the United States experienced the highest-ever combined rates of deaths due to alcohol, ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Friday, July 15, 2022 1:43 pm

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Pharmacy lobby defeats bill that would raise prescription costs

The lobbying organization for pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen between insurance companies and drug manufacturers, spent $86,168 in its successful effort to defeat a bill ... Read more

by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, June 16, 2022 11:09 am

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