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Research-based comic book at UK helps readers understand and fight use of electronic cigarettes by teens and young adults
Top of comic book cover, showing students as puppets of an electronic cigarette; story title is “The Villainous Vape” —– By Alicia Gregory University of Kentucky A team at the University...
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Beshear says setting a level of infection at which masks should be required shouldn’t be difficult because ‘It’s just basic science’
Beshear during his interview (Image from NBC) —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Requiring masks above a certain level of coronavirus infection shouldn’t be difficult “because it’s just basic science,” Gov....
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Beshear calls special session on pandemic; extent of his authority to issue mask mandates is likely most critical, contentious issue
State Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Kentucky General Assembly will meet in...
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Agenda for session includes aid for hospitals and nursing homes, and making it easier for doctors’ offices to get and give vaccines
Sen. Ralph Alvarado —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As the Kentucky General Assembly prepares to use its new powers in a special session to deal with the pandemic,...
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McConnell keeps urging shots, but avoids comment on others’ work and won’t repeat that he has ‘total’ confidence in Fauci
McConnell spoke at the University of Kentucky as Dr. Mark Newman, head of the hospital, listened. —– By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News At an event to...
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Eastern Kentucky couple’s deeply held resistance to coronavirus vaccines illustrate difficulty of getting enough people immunized
Tomi and Josh Stacy (Photo provided to Spectrum News) —– Kentucky Health News One reason many Kentuckians are resistant to coronavirus vaccination is people like Josh Stacy. “I feel there is...
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Isolation, closures and lethal drug supply likely contributed to the big increase in drug overdose deaths in Kentucky last year
CNN photo —– The 49% increase in drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky in 2020 included a big jump among young people, Jasmine Demers reports for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. Her object example...
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Morehead hospital is so desperate for staff that it may put coronavirus-positive nurses back to work, in its Covid-19 units
Drs. Adam Howard and William Melahn (St. Claire photo) —– St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead is so desperate for staff that it may bring back to work nurses who have...
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UofL Health-Jewish Hospital team is second in U.S. to implant a new type of artificial heart; Indiana man ‘doing well’ after 5 days
Mark Slaughter, M.D. (University of Louisville photo) —– The University of Louisville announced Wednesday that UofL Health-Jewish Hospital had implanted a new type of artificial heart in a Southern Indiana man, making it the second...
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Sense of community and common sacrifice missing among many in pandemic, especially some politicians, Silas House writes
House (Berea College photo) —– In a 1,634-word article for The Atlantic, Appalachian Kentucky writer Silas House explores the resistance to masking to fight the coronavirus. He begins by recalling his grandmother’s stories of...