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Covid metrics up across Kentucky
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News All measures of Covid-19 in Kentucky kept rising last week, with new cases up 24 percent, with a higher share ...
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Don’t look now, but Covid clinics making a comeback
Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Eight Kentucky health departments are participating in the “Kentucky Covid-19 Vaccine Extravaganza” in July and August to get more Kentuckians ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, July 25, 2022 3:43 pm
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Doctors worry about vagueness of Kentucky abortion ban exception
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Federal officials have issued guidance in an attempt to clarify when health-care providers can perform an abortion in states ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, July 18, 2022 2:03 pm
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Deaths in Kentucky by alcohol, drugs, suicide skyrocketed during pandemic
Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the first year of the pandemic, the United States experienced the highest-ever combined rates of deaths due to alcohol, ...
by Kentucky Health News, Friday, July 15, 2022 1:43 pm
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Pharmacy lobby defeats bill that would raise prescription costs
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 bill ...
by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, June 16, 2022 11:09 am
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Campaign to reduce stigma associated with drug addiction shows promising results
A campaign to reduce stigma associated with substance-use disorders has shown it can change attitudes and beliefs about people with drug addictions and increase support ...
by Kentucky Health News, Wednesday, June 15, 2022 8:00 am
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Commission named to disburse funds from opioid settlement
AL CROSS Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron has appointed the 11 people who will oversee the state’s half of the $483 million settlement ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, June 13, 2022 5:09 pm
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COVID-19 denial making doctors’ jobs harder
Healthcare workers “are growing weary of Covid-19 denial and misinformation that have made it exasperating to treat unvaccinated patients during the Delta-driven surge,” The Associated ...
