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Surgeon general issues advisory about social-media use
By MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Concerns about the effects of social media on youth mental health prompted America’s top public-health official to issue a ...
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Beshear out to revive Medicaid dental, vision, hearing benefits
BY MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has again proposed regulations to expand dental, vision and hearing Medicaid benefits for Kentucky adults, after ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, May 3, 2023 6:26 pm
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Seasonal depression is real, but so is treatment
BY HEATHER CLOSE Kentucky Health News As much as three percent of the U.S. population is thought to experience seasonal affective disorder, a type of ...
by Melissa Patrick, Thursday, February 9, 2023 2:36 pm
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Overall health of Kentuckians lags far behind national average
BY MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News After not ranking states for two years due to the pandemic, America’s Health Rankings again placed Kentucky among the ...
by Melissa Patrick, Friday, December 30, 2022 3:38 pm
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Severity of Covid cases drops in Kentucky
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News The weekly pandemic risk map for Kentucky improved again Thursday, as the number of counties at elevated risk of Covid-19 ...
by Melissa Patrick, Monday, September 26, 2022 11:32 am
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Kentucky leads nation in syringe-exchange programs: Officials say more are needed
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Kentucky still has more syringe service programs than any other state, but 57 counties still don’t have one, including 21 ...
by Melissa Patrick, Tuesday, September 13, 2022 9:14 am
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Fentanyl blamed for record overdose deaths in Kentucky
Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 14.6 percent in Kentucky in 2021, according to the state’s annual report released Monday. “The drug epidemic is not a ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, June 22, 2022 8:00 am
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All of Kentucky’s Covid-19 metrics rose last week State has attributed the deaths of more than 16,000 Kentuckians to the virus
All of the metrics to measure the coronavirus in Kentucky crept up in the last week, and the state passed the mark of 16,000 Kentuckians ...
by Melissa Patrick, Monday, June 20, 2022 12:24 pm
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Data shows Kentucky ODs rose in 2021
MELISSA PATRICK Kentucky Health News Drug-overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 13.55 percent in 2021, according to a recent federal report. The preliminary data from the ...
by Melissa Patrick, Wednesday, June 8, 2022 9:00 am
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Covid infection rate remains top among states; Most metrics used to measure the pandemic trending downward
Even as Kentucky’s daily new-case rate, infection rate, positive-test rate and Covid-19 hospital numbers are steadily trending down, its seven-day rate of daily new cases ...
