Great American Smokeout is Thursday, Nov. 19
Thursday, Nov. 19, is the Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers are encouraged to quit for the day and make a plan to quit for good. That remains important...
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Thursday, Nov. 19, is the Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers are encouraged to quit for the day and make a plan to quit for good. That remains important...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Armed with data and an unusual dose of emotion, outgoing Gov. Steve Beshear urged Gov.-elect Matt Bevin to reconsider his positions and keep the...
Gov.-elect Matt Bevin vowed to scale back the state’s Medicaid expansion, but that didn’t seem to hurt him much in counties with a high percentage of Medicaid recipients, as they...
The annual Kentucky Kids Count report on the well-being of the state’s children says that we lead the nation in smoking by pregnant mothers, that one in four Kentucky children...
Poor, minority and rural residents are less likely to be screened for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers and more likely to have high mortality rates from the diseases because they...