Category: FEATURED
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Fayette County becomes 11th Kentucky county to recommend that all its residents be vaccinated for hepatitis A
As the number of hepatitis A cases continues to climb in Kentucky, health officials in Fayette County are recommending all Lexington residents get vaccinated, Mike Stunson and Karla Ward report for the Lexington...
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Study shows Kentucky ranks fifth for daily electronic cigarette use, which translates to about 80,000 daily vapers in the state
From 2012 to 2014, Kentucky ranked fifth for daily use of electronic cigarettes and was among the top 10 states for current use, which includes occasional use, Darla Carter reports for Insider Louisville. That...
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This is Suicide Prevention Week; mother-lawyer-nurse says we can prevent it among children by building their resilience
By Kate Hendrickson Community columnist, Lexington Herald-Leader Another parent has lost a child — this time a fourth-grader — to suicide. Appallingly, suicide is the second-leading cause of death for children in...
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Op-ed calls for smoking bans to include e-cigs and for an e-cig tax to decrease teen use; new e-cigs are easy for teens to hide
A used package of Juul cartridges, found on a Frankfort sidewalk. (Photo by Al Cross) As students head back to school and concerns about their increasing use of a new electronic...
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State’s new health commissioner, Dr. Jeffrey Howard, is called ‘a breath of fresh air’ by a local director who’s seen six of them
Commissioner Jeffrey Howard talks with Kentucky Health News reporter Melissa Patrick. (Photo by state spokesman Doug Hogan) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky’s recently installed health...
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260 in Morehead hear speakers on opioid recovery and solutions to the epidemic: rebuilding communities and long-term treatment
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Treating opioid-use disorder as a chronic disease, finding local solutions and restoring communities were the overarching themes of an event in Morehead Sept. 5...
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Veteran of Medicaid in several states named commissioner in Ky.; health cabinet creates new post to deal with health-care providers
The state Cabinet for Health and Family Serviceshas named Carol H. Steckel commissioner of the Department of Medicaid Services. Steckel is a Medicaid and managed-care expert with more than two decades of...
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Baptist Health names Dr. Jody Prather chief strategy officer
Baptist Health, Kentucky’s largest hospital company, has named Dr. Jody Prather of Elizabethtown its chief strategy officer, a job in which he will work with other executives “to create strategic...
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Sept. 18 webinar will explore why rural areas lag in getting children a vaccine that can prevent a major type of cancer
The Rural Health Information Hub will hold a webinar to discuss the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s recent report showing that rural teens are less likely than their urban peers to know about the human papilloma...
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U of L seeks nominations for award for Ky., S. Ind. nurses
Monday, Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to nominate outstanding nurses from Kentucky and Southern Indiana for the fifth annual Florence Nightingale Awards in Nursing, presented by the University of...