Melissa Patrick, Author at Middlesboro News
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As illness from the three respiratory viruses tracked by Kentucky health departments — influenza, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — continue to pile up, ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Thursday, December 28, 2023 9:53 pm
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As illness from the three respiratory viruses tracked by Kentucky health departments — influenza, Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — continue to pile up, ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, December 27, 2023 5:58 pm
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By MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Concerns about the effects of social media on youth mental health prompted America’s top public-health official to issue a ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, May 30, 2023 12:23 pm
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BY MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has again proposed regulations to expand dental, vision and hearing Medicaid benefits for Kentucky adults, after ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 6:26 pm
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BY HEATHER CLOSE Kentucky Health News As much as three percent of the U.S. population is thought to experience seasonal affective disorder, a type of ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Thursday, February 9, 2023 2:36 pm
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BY MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News After not ranking states for two years due to the pandemic, America’s Health Rankings again placed Kentucky among the ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Friday, December 30, 2022 3:38 pm
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MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News The weekly pandemic risk map for Kentucky improved again Thursday, as the number of counties at elevated risk of Covid-19 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Monday, September 26, 2022 11:32 am
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MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Kentucky still has more syringe service programs than any other state, but 57 counties still don’t have one, including 21 ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 9:14 am
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Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 14.6 percent in Kentucky in 2021, according to the state’s annual report released Monday. “The drug epidemic is not a ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, June 22, 2022 8:00 am
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All of the metrics to measure the coronavirus in Kentucky crept up in the last week, and the state passed the mark of 16,000 Kentuckians ...
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by Melissa Patrick, Monday, June 20, 2022 12:24 pm
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