By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2024 ...
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UK expands heart and vascular care to hospitals across the stateHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One of the many ways that UK HealthCare strives to improve the heart health of Kentuckians is th...
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Messaging campaign to encourage back to school vaccines is underway; Kentucky vaccination rates are below U.S. averageHealthy Care
Lexington-Fayette County Health Department graphic By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With just weeks left before school ...
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Why millions are trying FDA-authorized alternatives to Big Pharma’s weight-loss drugs, exceedingly popular in KentuckyHealthy Care
Editor's note: Last year Kentucky led the nation in the percentage of population that had received these weight-loss druges by prescript...
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New health laws are in effect; one in limbo due to lack of fundingHealthy Care
Kentucky Capitol (Wikipedia photo) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A number of new state health laws took effect July ...
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Local governments mulling ways to use opioid settlement fundsHealthy Care
KFF Health News graphic By Zacharie Lamb WKMS More than a year after local governments across Kentucky began receiving shares o...
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Mental-health care access can be a challenge in Eastern Kentucky; on top of that, the subject still carries stigma for someHealthy Care
Appalachian Region Healthcare Behavioral Health Facility (Photo submitted to WEKU) By Stan Ingold WEKU Experts are concerned a...
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Program for mothers and pregnant women with substance-use disorder gets grant to help more Black women get its servicesHealthy Care
Freedom House (Photo provided to Kentucky Lantern) By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern The Volunteers of America chapter that incl...
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As part of resetting its relationship with rural hospitals, UK will not build a new hospital at interstate junction in southeast LexingtonHealthy Care
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky will not build a hospital in southeast Lexington because it wants to do what...
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Study to help reduce risk of heart disease and diabetes is looking for participants on Zoom in 16 Central Kentucky countiesHealthy Care
Kentucky Health News map By Gia Mudd-Martin University of Kentucky Heart disease and Type 2 diabetes are often preventable, but...
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Cigarette tax collections in Ky. dropped after the last two tax increases; the state's smoking rate has also been on the declineHealthy Care
Kentucky Health News graph from state data By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Increasing state cigarette taxes has proven...
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Kentucky is a national leader in lung-cancer screening, but still has a long way to go to get all eligible people screenedHealthy Care
American Cancer Society photo illustration By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky ranks second among states for lung...
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Lee Co. harm-reduction chief says 80% of clients are homelessHealthy Care
Jo Ann Fraley runs the harm-reduction program for the Kentucky River District Health Department. (Photos by Stu Johnson, WEKU) B...
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Breathitt, Lee, Jessamine and Nelson counties are certified as Recovery Ready Communities, totaling 14 in effort's 14 monthsHealthy Care
Kentucky Health News map Gov. Andy Beshear presents Recovery Ready Community certificate for Lee County to Scott Lockard an...
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