Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Beshear appoints panel to advise him on how to make medical cannabis available; it will meet Monday, June 20, in Frankfort
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has appointed a committee to advise him on how to provide access to medical cannabis for Kentuckians suffering from chronic pain...
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CDC says the Covid-19 risk level is high in 19 Kentucky counties and medium in 29; transmission levels are high in 111 counties
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News This week’s federal Covid-19 community levels map shows a slightly increased...
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Study could help Type 2 diabetics who have high blood pressure that doesn’t keep the normal rhythm of falling at nightStudy could help Type 2 diabetics who have high blood pressure that doesn’t keep the normal rhythm of falling at night
If you’re a Type 2 diabetic and have a problem with high blood pressure at night, you might be able to control it by limiting your eating to to a...
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Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep rising, somewhat steeply, but the positive-test rate is slightly lower
Kentucky Health News graph, from state data; click on it to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While coronavirus cases and Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up last...
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Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose nearly 15% last year; fentanyl involved in 73% of deaths, methamphetamine in 48%
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 14.6 percent in Kentucky in 2021, according to the state’s annual report released Monday. “The drug epidemic is not a Kentucky...
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Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep rising, somewhat steeply, but the positive-test rate is slightly lower
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While coronavirus cases and Covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky went up last week, at much the same acceleration as the week before, the share of...
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Sons of smokers may be more prone to addiction-like behaviors, memory problems and anxiety, study says
If you’re a parent who smokes, your sons may be more susceptible to addiction-related symptoms, memory problems and anxiety, says a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is another...
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Kentucky’s intensive-care units will give new parents insurer-funded kits so new parents can learn how to give CPR to infants
The Kentuckiana American Heart Association and the Kentucky Association of Health Plans, the association for companies selling and managing health insurance in the state, and have introduced a new initiative to equip thousands...
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Pharmacy benefit managers’ group ranked No. 7 in spending for lobbying the General Assembly, after laying out $53,634 for ads
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The lobbying organization for pharmacy benefit managers, the middlemen between insurance companies and drug manufacturers, spent $86,168 in its successful effort to defeat a...
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Changing virus poses challenges to updating Covid-19 vaccines
Efforts to update Covid-19 vaccines are struggling to keep up with mutations in the novel coronavirus, raising the question of whether updated vaccines will be outdated by the time they...