Day: December 20, 2015
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Kentucky ranks first in deaths from cancer, a longtime fact given big play on the Sunday front page of The Courier-Journal
Kentucky has led the nation in cancer deaths for several years, but that fact hasn’t been trumpeted on the front page of a major newspaper in quite the way The Courier-Journal did...
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Some local officials reject needle exchanges and research showing that they don’t encourage and enable drug abuse
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Needle-exchange programs were approved this year as part of a landmark heroin bill, but they require local consent, and this caveat is proving to...