Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Long Covid is keeping many Americans from returning to work
About 16 million Americans have long Covid-19 and four million of them say this has significantly reduced their ability to carry out day-to-day activities, including their jobs, Paul Solman reports...
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‘Addiction and the media: Stigmatizing language and best practices’ virtual meeting to be held May 17, registration required
The HEALing Communities Study Learning Collaborative at the University of Kentucky is offering a virtual session titled “Addiction and the media: Stigmatizing language and best practices” at 11 a.m. ET...
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Annual overdose deaths in Kentucky fall for first time in four years
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For the first year since 2018, Kentucky saw a drop in drug overdose deaths last year. Provisional data gathered by the Kentucky Injury Prevention...
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Sneezing? Sniffling? Climate change means U.S. allergy seasons last a month longer than in 1990 and have 21% more pollen
By Laurel Swanz Kentucky Health News With allergy season in full swing in Kentucky, those suffering from nasal allergies and asthma may feel as though the pollen gets worse every...
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Ads and social media hype new, expensive weight-loss drugs; doctors sound alarms about off-label uses and side effects
By Darius Tahir and Hannah Norman KFF Health News Suzette Zuena is her own best advertisement for weight loss. Zuena, the “founder/visionary” of LH Spa & Rejuvenation in Livingston and...
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59% of residents, just 16% of staff in Ky. nursing homes have had Covid-19 booster shots; both rates slightly above national rates
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While Kentucky nursing homes’ Covid-19 booster rates are higher than the national rates, many staff and residents remain vulnerable to the disease because over...
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New cases of the coronavirus continue to decline in Kentucky, but people continue to die from Covid-19; U.S. deaths hit 1.1 million
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Overall, the Covid-19 metrics in Kentucky are good, but the bad news is that people are still dying from it. The latest report from the state...
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UK environmental-health scientist Erin Haynes leads study in Ohio to track health impact of train derailment in East Palestine
A University of Kentucky environmental scientist is taking steps to learn more about the health symptoms and exposures faced by the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, following a train derailment...
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New Office of Rural Health is being created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address rural health disparities
The newly created Office of Rural Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will work to combat rural health disparities across the nation by addressing infrastructure needs and ...
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Carrying naloxone saves lives; bystanders are present in more than 1/3 of opioid overdoses
By Trish Freeman University of Kentucky Chances are you or someone close to you has been directly impacted by the opioid epidemic, which continues to afflict Kentucky. In 2021, overdose...