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CDC: 83% of Ky. counties have low risk of Covid-19 transmission
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most of Kentucky again has a low risk of Covid-19 transmission on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention risk map, but when it...
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Freestanding birth center bill hits roadblock: Senate floor leader
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even though a Senate bill to remove the state’s certificate of need requirements from freestanding birthing centers has passed out of the same committee...
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Learn how to nominate someone for recognition as a Healthy Kentucky Champion in a 30-minute webinar at noon ET March 21
Kentucky has many “Healthy Kentucky Champions,” people recognized by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky for their efforts to make our state a healthier place. You may know someone worthy...
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In first gubernatorial debate, Cameron says he could sign a medical-cannabis bill; Keck favors exceptions to abortion law
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Tuesday night that he could sign a medical-marijuana bill as governor if it law-enforcement and medical experts “can get...
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On the third anniversary of the pandemic’s arrival in Ky., the virus continues to infect and kill; state’s new-case rate still 3rd in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Today, March 6, marks the third anniversary of the announcement of Kentucky’s first case of Covid-19, a disease that has infected more than 1.7...
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With pandemic benefits long gone, and inflation pushing up food prices, lines for free food can stretch for a mile in Hazel Green
By Tim Craig The Washington Post HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly...
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Bill to exclude fentanyl test strips from legal definition of drug paraphernalia awaits initial passage by the Kentucky House
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Fentanyl test strips would no longer be considered drug paraphernalia in Kentucky under a bipartisan bill that the House Judiciary Committee approved Wednesday, on a...
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Bill would create phone app for confidential mental-health texting for Ky. youth; 9.5% of Ky. high-schoolers have attempted suicide
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a free mobile-phone application for confidential crisis intervention for Kentucky youth, parents and their teachers is poised to pass the...
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Bill to leave children’s Covid-19 vaccination decisions entirely with parents and guardians is approved by a House committee
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky lawmakers have sent the House a bill to ensure that the state’s children are not required to get a Covid-19 vaccine and that...
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House health chair says anti-trans bill will worsen state’s health-workforce shortage, chill doctors’ dealings with young patients
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ban gender-affirming treatment for Kentucky minors would worsen the state’s health-care workforce shortage and chill family health providers who often are...