Author: Al Cross
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Alice Bridges of Louisville named latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for community health and childhood trauma efforts
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has named longtime Louisville health-care executive Alice O. Bridges as the latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion for her work to address childhood trauma in schools and...
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CDC urges people to stop using electronic cigarettes amid an outbreak of lung illness related to ‘vaping’ that has killed at least 4
The companies call it “vaping,” but e-cigs produce aerosol with particulates, not a vapor. (NPR photo) —– Four deaths have been linked to use of electronic cigarettes and federal officials are investigating...
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National Preparedness Month’s theme is ‘Prepared, Not Scared. Be Ready for Disasters.’ Here are tips to help you be prepared.
Because emergencies and disasters can happen without notice, the stateDepartment for Public Health is offering tips on how to always be prepared in a campaign called “Prepared, Not Scared. Be Ready...
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Jamie Ennis Bloyd of Lexington, advocate for work on childhood cancer, is named latest Healthy Kentucky Policy Champion
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has named Jamie Ennis Bloyd, who has worked at both the state and national level to advance research and policies for childhood cancer prevention, treatment and...
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Philip Morris, Altria may re-unite; single firm would be market leader in nicotine delivery, and health advocates don’t like it
IQOS items sold by Philip Morris, soon to be by Altria Group —– Health advocates and tobacco foes are objecting to a possible reunion of Altria Group and Philip Morris International, on grounds...
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Kentucky public health nurses and administrative staff travel to North Carolina to help people displaced by Hurricane Dorian
A team of Kentucky public-health nurses are on their way to North Carolina to provide medical support in local shelters filled by Hurricane Dorian for about two weeks, said the...
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Save the date: Friday, Nov. 15, to attend Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery, a workshop for journalists, in Ashland
Covering Substance Abuse and Recovery: A Workshop for Journalists will be held in Ashland Nov. 15 by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The workshop is...
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Regular users of syringe exchanges who say they can decrease opioid use (and don’t use meth) are more likely to get treatment
One of the first studies to explore syringe-service programs in rural counties found that the participants who consistently used a syringe exchange and voiced high confidence in their ability to...
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Meth is Pikeville’s ‘drug of choice.’ It’s epidemic, involved in 80% of arrests, and its addiction is harder to treat than opioid addiction.
Pikeville and Pike County are battling a resurgence in use of methamphetamine, reports Alex Acquisto of the Lexington Herald-Leader. The area has been ground zero for the opioid epidemic, but “a quieter crisis...
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UK gets $1.3 million grant to help train more substance-abuse and behavioral-health workers for work in Appalachia
The College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky has received a three-year, $1.3 million federal grant to help get more substance-abuse and behavioral-health workers in Appalachia. “More than two-thirds of Kentucky’s counties...