Category: EVENTS
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Registration is open for April 14 conference in Bowling Green on youth vaccine that prevents certain types of cancer
Screenshot of flyer; for registration information, click here. —– By Melissa Patrick Ky. Health News The Kentucky Rural Health Association is devoting a one-day conference to discuss a vaccine that can protect against...
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Kynect health-insurance open enrollment extended to Jan. 31
Map shows choice of health insurance companies offering federally subsidized plans in each county. —– The deadline to sign up for federally subsidized health insurance through kynect.ky.gov , the state’s online portal,...
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Kynect health-insurance open enrollment ends Saturday, Jan. 15
Map shows choice of health insurance companies offering federally subsidized plans in each county. —– Saturday, Jan. 15, is the last day for Kentuckians to sign up for federally subsidized...
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Baptist Health offers a free, one-hour, online class to help smokers quit; the next one is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 12
“Quitting tobacco is one the most common New Year’s resolutions made each year, but often proves to be one of the most difficult to keep,” Baptist Health says in a news release...
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Webinar at 6:30 ET Monday will help parents and child advocates keep children from ingesting medicines and poisons
By Jonathan Greene University of Kentucky Our homes have more medications than ever, increasing the risk of unintentional, unsupervised ingestions of medicine and other poisons. To help head off such potentially...
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Kynect open to preview federally subsidized health plans, with more options and bigger subsidies; enrollment open Nov. 1
Cabinet for Health and Family Services map, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Open enrollment for federally subsidized health-insurance coverage beginning in January will...
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Beshear says Republicans at Fancy Farm should have taken ‘one minute’ from attacking him to promote coronavirus vaccinations
Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles was the most outspoken. (Photo by Ryland Barton, WFPL) —– Republicans at Saturday’s Fancy Farm Picnic took several familiar shots at absent Gov. Andy Beshear’s handling of...
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Community Health Days offering screenings and coronavirus vaccines in 32 Appalachian Ky. counties through November
The first Community Health Day was held in Hindman Friday, Aug. 6. (Photos by Melissa Slone, UK) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News HINDMAN, Ky. — The first of 96 University...
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Special enrollment period for health insurance on healthcare.gov ends Aug. 15; subsidies are bigger, and more people qualify
AARP illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Time is running out to sign up for low- or no-cost health insurance through the federal marketplace under the special enrollment...
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Appalachian Food for Health, a diabetes prevention virtual program, is scheduled for from 10 a.m. to noon Friday
The second annual “Appalachian Food for Health” virtual event, focusing on diabetes prevention, is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, July 30. Click here to register. The event is hosted by Shaping...