Lexington marks 20 smoke-free years but smoking bans still haven't caught on in most of Ky. despite tobacco's toll on healthHealthy Care

Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton led a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the city's ordinance banning smoking in indoor workplace...

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Ticks can't jump but static electricity can thrown them onto hostsHealthy Care

Static electric fields naturally produced by animals, humans included, can attract ticks onto their hosts. (Video by England and Lihou, ...

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Kentucky gets $2.25 million to expand restructure reserve corps of medical and non-medical workers who help in times of need Healthy Care

Kentucky Health News map from iStock base map By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With a $2.25 million grant, Kentucky will...

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Veterans' advocates tell legislators they need help to prevent veteran suicide; Ky. loses about 118 veterans to suicide per yearHealthy Care

This story deals with suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Life...

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Backers of laws on transgender care often have misconceptions and misinformation that make details of care hard to understandHealthy Care

Movement Advancement Project  chart, adapted by KHN; click to enlarge; notes and details are  here . By Helen Santoro KFF Health N...

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Nonprofit gets $887152 federal grant to train APRNs clinical social workers and counselors in substance-abuse counselingHealthy Care

MCHC has 13 clinics in seven counties. (MCHC/KHN map) Mountain Comprehensive Health Corp. of Whitesburg has received a federal gr...

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Headed to the water? Wear a swimsuit with colors that are easy to see and remember drowning rarely happens as you see it on TVHealthy Care

This girl is wearing a swimsuit with contrasting colors, easily seen in the water. (Photo by Alex Bard, iStock/Getty Images Plus) ...

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Matthew Coleman is new director of state Office of Rural HealthHealthy Care

Matthew Coleman By Beth Bowling University of Kentucky HAZARD, Ky. — Matthew Coleman has been named director of the Kentucky Of...

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Kentucky farmers deal with uncontrollable stressors; there's a mental-health coalition that helps themHealthy Care

Sarah Jones poses for a photo a flock of her sheep at he family's Red Hill Farms, which straddles the state line in Allen County a...

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Electronic cigarette sales are way up and so are calls to poison-control centers about children's exposure to the devicesHealthy Care

Truth Initiative photo By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Electronic cigarette sales are up, and so are calls to poison co...

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Kentucky keeps losing doctors when it needs more of them; in the 2022 fiscal year it had only seven for every eight it had in 2018Healthy Care

Ky. Health News graph from UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health data; 2021 Fiscal Year numbers are missing due to the pandemic....

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Electronic cigarettes get bigger and badder: Sales rose nearly 50% in last 3 years nicotine content went up 76% in last 5 yearsHealthy Care

Disposable e-cigarette sales soared after the Food and Drug Administration banned fruity and minty flavors in cartridge-based devices...

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Herald-Leader digs into idea of using a psychedelic drug to treat opioid-use disorder talks to a Ky. woman about her use of it Healthy Care

The head of the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission has suggested using up to $42 million of the more than $900 million in settle...

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Abortion providers drop at least for now challenge to state's anti-abortion laws after failing to find a patient to be the plaintiffHealthy Care

Planned Parenthood's Louisville health clinic Photo by Deborah Yetter, Kentucky Lantern Kentucky’s two abortion clinics are d...

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