Day: May 22, 2024
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Hospital association, Department of Agriculture start ‘Food as Medicine’ effort to get more local food into Kentucky hospitals
Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Hospital Association and the state Department of Agriculture have started an effort to get more local food into Kentucky hospitals. “A recent survey completed by representatives...
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High cost of new diabetes drugs, more popular in Ky. than any other state, deprives low-income people of effective treatment
Editor’s note: At the end of 2023 Kentucky led the nation in the percentage of state population, 2.1%, who had received the new class of diabetes and weight-loss drugs. By...
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Repeat Covid-19 shots help ward off variants, even other viruses
Kentucky Health News The virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic is still here, sending thousands of Americans to hospitals each week and regularly spinning off new variants that can evade...