Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Coronavirus positive-test rate and new cases, and Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths, are all rising again in Kentucky
Kentucky Health News graph, from weekly state reports —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As in most other states, the metrics used to measure Covid-19 in Kentucky have ticked...
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Months after a breast-cancer diagnosis and a double mastectomy, a Monticello mother completes a 102-mile, 33-hour road race
Lindsey Sexton runs the No Business 100. (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– When Lindsey Sexton of Monticello started to train for a 102-mile road race in the rugged...
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Number of school-based health clinics keeps growing
Kentucky Primary Care Association map; for a larger version, click on it; to download, right click. —– The number of school-based clinics in Kentucky keeps growing, as four community health...
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Post-Roe, rural women would face more obstacles; retired health director says the issue is about men, women, sex and control
Bertie Salyer —– “Trigger laws” would make abortion in Kentucky and 12 other states illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned. That would disproportionately affect rural women, who are more likely than their...
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Panel discusses a post-Roe v. Wade America; journalists are encouraged to treat as health issue, not a political one
healthlaw.org image —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two days before the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that proposes to overturn abortion rights under its 1973 Roe...
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CDC says Union, Henderson and McCracken counties have medium levels of virus, so high-risk people there need masks
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three Western Kentucky counties are yellow on the national Covid-19 risk map, for counties with a...
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Study: Ky. non-profit hospitals get more in tax exemptions than they give in community benefit; hospitals dispute methodology
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News A first-of-its-kind report argues that all of the nonprofit hospital systems in Kentucky are spending less on community investments and charity...
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The Courier Journal reports on illegal abortions in Ky. before Roe v. Wade and asks, ‘Will history repeat itself?’
Headlines on 1939 undercover C-J investigation that found abortion was commonplace in Louisville —– As the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to abolish the right to an abortion, Andrew Wolfson...
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‘Trigger law’ would end legal abortion in Kentucky if Supreme Court overturns its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, as leaked
Screenshot of image of Scribd document from Politico —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overturn the court’s 1973 Roe...
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All key metrics to measure the coronavirus in Ky. are creeping up, as state slips to 37th in the share of population fully vaccinated
Map by The Washington Post; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even as the national Covid-19 risk map shows low risk of community transmission...