Tag: federal grants
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3 Ky. groups get Rural Communities Opioid Response Program grants, awarded nearly $2 million in 2024
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is one of 19 states to receive grant funding from the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program to be used to improve access to...
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Feds give UK $19.8 million second-round grant to bring health research into communities in Kentucky and Central Appalachia
By Al Cross and Traci Thomas Kentucky Health News A four-year, $19.8 million research grant to the University of Kentucky will bring better health care for people in Kentucky and...
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Baptist Health Corbin and Mountain Comprehensive Health, Whitesburg, get USDA grants to treat addiction via telemedicine
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $720,000 grant to Baptist Health Foundation Corbin Inc. and Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp. in Whitesburg for telemedicine programs...
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UK gets $2.8 million grant for Rural Health Research Center; will study health-care access in poor, rural U.S., including Appalachia
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky has received a $2.8 million competitive grant to establish a Rural Health Research Center that will focus on access to...
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Lifting of ban on federal funding for needle-exchange programs has the potential to help Kentucky fight disease, but not yet
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s top Republicans in Congress, played a key role in lifting a longstanding ban...
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$54,000 from CDC will help some counties fight obesity, inactivity
Multiple counties across the state have been awarded federally funded grants from the state Department for Public Health to help fight obesity and inactivity in their communities, according to a DPH...
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Lung cancer is the deadliest but least researched cancer; do funders consider it self-inflicted? An important question for Ky.
Lung cancer kills more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, and yet it is the least researched, which could be because funders perceive it is a self-inflicted disease...
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137 Ky. schools chosen for Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program; students at one Barren County school have embraced it
Park City Elementary School in Barren County is one of 137 Kentucky elementary schools selected this year to participate in a program that provides a daily fruit or vegetable snack...
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Kentucky will get money to increase colon cancer screenings in Louisville and Appalachia, which lag behind recent success
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky will receive about $2.6 million in federal money over five years to help fight colon cancer by encouraging people to be screened for...
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Ky. to share in $2.5 million anti-heroin grant that will pair law enforcement and public health to put more focus on treatment
Kentucky will be among several states to share a $2.5 million federal grant to help fight the heroin epidemic in its communities, according to press release from the office of...