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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News At their first-ever statewide meeting, Kentucky’s local boards of health voted for their state association to adopt a legislative platform aimed at modernizing the...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A minister, a nurse and a physician assistant joined forces in Powell County to educate its citizens about a syringe-exchange program, which should open...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News VERSAILLES — The Woodford County Board of Health is educating itself about syringe-exchange programs, with plans to begin the process of creating a plan for...
Needle exchanges may be difficult for some people to accept, but they are better than outbreaks of hepatitis and HIV or accidental injury from discarded needles, officials in Kentucky counties...
The Kenton County Fiscal Court unanimously approved a mobile needle exchange program March 29, which moves the City of Covington’s needle exchange program one step closer to fruition, Terry DeMio...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Clark and Boyd counties are the ninth and 10th Kentucky counties to approve a needle-exchange program, and Madison and Anderson counties are talking about it....
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Jessamine, Carter and Elliott counties are the latest Kentucky counties to approve needle exchange programs, joining Fayette (Lexington), Jefferson (Louisville) and Pendleton counties. The...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three counties in Kentucky with unenforceable smoking bans continue to be smoke-free by the people’s choice. Clark, Madison and Woodford counties have smoking bans...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News County health boards in Kentucky do not have the power to ban smoking in public places, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled without dissent Thursday....
A smoker in the Bullitt County Judicial Center last month. (Photo by Dana Rieber, special to The Courier-Journal) Who should get to steer the no-smoking ship in Bullitt County? The county...