Author: Al Cross
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New beverage recommendations for children to age 5 say to avoid all drinks with added sugar, and plant-based milks
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Health experts from four of the nation’s most prominent health organizations have created a new set of beverage recommendations for children under the age...
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Louisville campaign works to decrease high suicide rate among LGBTQ+ youth; focuses on importance of parental support
A new campaign in Louisville is working to decrease the high suicide rate among high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning by emphasizing the importance...
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Registration is open for a free substance-abuse and addiction conference Oct. 11 in Grand Rivers, Ky.
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is hosting the Western Kentucky Regional Community Education Day, designed to educate and stimulate community discussion around substance abuse and addiction. This year’s event is titled, “The...
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Nov. 15 workshop in Ashland will help rural journalists cover the difficult topic of substance abuse and recovery; space is limited
The epidemic of opioid use and other substance abuse has hit many rural communities hard, but rural news media have a hard time covering this difficult subject, for various reasons....
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Kentucky libraries have become key partners in helping rural residents learn about health, nutrition and healthy lifestyles
An information board in the Pulaski County Public Library has much material about health. (Photo by Sarah Baird for Stateline) —– Libraries in rural Kentucky are becoming a key partner in...
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Rural hospitals, already cut by Medicare, are about to get their Medicaid payments reduced, too; here’s a partial Kentucky list
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hospitals in Kentucky and across the nation are getting a reprieve, maybe a short one, from a new formula cutting the money the...
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Burkesville hospital open, similar one 24 miles away in Tenn. is closed; big differences: Medicaid expansion and diversification
OpenStreetMap contributors, via The Daily Yonder, adapted by Ky. Health News —– Along the Cumberland River in Southern Kentucky and Middle Tennessee are two towns 24 miles apart by road....
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Algal bloom warning issued for Ohio River above Louisville
The state Division of Water and Department for Public Health are warning people not to swim, wade or ski in the Ohio River from the McAlpine Dam at Louisville upstream...
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Bevin wants ‘inaccurate and defamatory’ Democratic ad taken down; Frankfort paper finds it lacks context, but isn’t baseless
Gov. Matt Bevin has asked TV stations to take down what his campaign calls a “factually inaccurate and defamatory” commercial that says Bevin has tried to take health care away...
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Schuster wins top health policy advocacy award for more than 40 years of work in mental health; calls for an end to stigma around it
Left to right: Mark Carter, Sheila Schuster, Ben Chandler, LeChrista Finn —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Sheila Schuster, who has spent more than four decades advocating for those...