Category: FEATURED
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Health chief says his background helps him deal with pandemic, but nothing could prepare him fully for what’s like ‘Groundhog Day’
Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the state Department for Public Health, has become a familiar face to many Kentuckians during the covid-19 pandemic, but he has offered the public little information...
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State reports 790 new coronavirus cases, lower positive-test rate
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News After four days with more than 800 new coronavirus cases each day, Kentucky finally dipped below that figure, but not by much. Saturday’s case...
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‘Prostate cancer is to men as breast cancer is to women,’ survivor writes for National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
By Steve Ranson Prostate cancer is to men as breast cancer is to women. The second-leading cause of cancer deaths in men comes from a small gland located between the...
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Study finds using electronic cigarettes can lead to ‘substantially increased risk’ for teens and young adults of developing covid-19
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Electronic cigarettes are linked to a “substantially increased risk” of covid-19 among teens and young adults, a new study says. “This study tells us...
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Stigma, a big obstacle to fighting drug abuse, is often reinforced by health-care providers, and in the pandemic is more problematic
By Nora D. Volkow Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse Republished from Scientific American magazine Untreated drug and alcohol use contributes to tens of thousands of deaths every year and affects the...
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Contact tracer at UK describes how the process works
University of Kentucky contact tracers work in the Boone Center, the former faculty club, which has been closed. (UK photo by Pete Camparoni) —– By Lindsey Piercy University of Kentucky It’s...
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Somerset-area legislators decry Beshear’s restrictions at Chamber meeting with little use of masks or social distancing
L-R: Sen. Rick Gidler, Reps. David Meade and Ken Upchurch, unopposed House nominees Josh Branscum and Shane Baker (Photos by Caleb Lowndes, the Commonwealth Journal) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health...
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Nursing homes say they need more help from the state; their residents have accounted for 58.6% of covid-19 deaths in Ky.
WKYT-TV image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As they remain the main sites for deadly infections of the novel coronavirus, Kentucky’s nursing homes are asking for more help...
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State’s positive-test rate stays below 5% for the fourth day this week, while daily new-case numbers remain on a slow uptick
Kentucky School Boards Association map shows compliance with governor’s request. Butler County should be in orange, and in some blue districts, school boards have authorized superintendents to start in-person classes before Sept....
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Virus has spread too much for contact tracing to contain it, but tracing can still help, especially if more people would cooperate
By Lisa Gillespie Kentucky Health News In wide swaths of Kentucky, tracing the contacts of people with the coronavirus is no longer preventing its spread, because the spread has become...