Category: FEATURED
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The sooner you quit smoking, the better off your lungs will be; but the sooner you start, the higher will be your risk of cancer death
Photo: Getty Images/Wavebreakmedia —– Smoking’s negative health consequences are well known, but smokers can reduce―or even erase―their risk of dying from lung cancer by quitting at a young age, and...
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Rural Americans are the most likely to say the pandemic is over, and least likely to take precautions against it
The Atlantic/Leger poll was conducted Nov. 5-7. Click the image to enlarge or click here for the rest of the report. —– Though the coronavirus remains entrenched in rural areas, rural Americans are more likely...
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Exercise increases the body’s cannabis-like substances, which can help reduce chronic inflammation, English study shows
Photo: Shutterstock —– Exercise can reduce chronic inflammation by increasing the body’s own cannabis-like substances, which have the potential to treat conditions ranging from arthritis to cancer to heart disease....
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Health commissioner says to expect more coronavirus surges, so it’s important to keep encouraging vaccines despite resistance
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky will continue to see coronavirus surges from time to time, and because Covid-19 still has the potential to overwhelm the health-care system, it’s...
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Coronavirus new-case rate goes up 7.9% in one day; state clears backlog of Covid-19 deaths and adds 212 to pandemic total
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News As the rate of new coronavirus cases in Kentucky jumped almost 8 percent in one day, state officials cleared a backlog of Covid-19 deaths,...
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Beshear urges ‘immediacy’ when it comes to getting a Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot, as Thanksgiving nears
Kentucky Department for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As coronavirus infection rates in Kentucky kept inching up, Gov. Andy Beshear kept urging...
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All Ky. adults can get booster; new-case rate and hospitalizations up over 2%; cases in unmasked Warren County schools jump
New York Times map, adapted by Ky. Health News, shows cases increasing with colder weather. To enlarge any image, click on it; for the interactive version of this map, with local...
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Statewide pandemic metrics mostly stable, but hospital numbers keep rising; Bourbon County shifts to in-home schooling
Kentucky Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky reported 1,821 new coronavirus cases Tuesday, raising the...
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Weekly case numbers go up 20% after falling for seven weeks; Beshear calls it a plateau, says the virus ‘is not done with us yet’
Ky. Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Ky. Health News; to enlarge, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s coronavirus cases in the week ending Nov. 14...
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Most Ky. hospitals in national patient safety ratings got Cs again
Screenshot of Leapfrog page for Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center, which moved to a C rating after getting five Ds in a row. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A...