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Healthy coincidence? Kentucky’s adult smoking rate, cigarette tax collections decline
Increasing state cigarette taxes has proven to be an effective policy to decrease smoking rates, and it appears that is also true in Kentucky. Nearly 30 percent of Kentucky...
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Trauma, poverty, COVID-19 causing high rates of chronic absenteeism in Kentucky
The number of Kentucky youth who are chronically absent from school skyrocketed during the 2022-2023 school year. The reasons for chronic absenteeism are interconnected and complicated — and the...
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U.S. Department of Justice investigating Kentucky DJJ
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into the conditions at eight of the youth detention centers and one development center in the Kentucky Department...
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UK hosts national meeting to raise immunization rate for vaccine against cervical and other HPV cancers, in which Ky. leads U.S.
Kentucky Department for Public Health illustration By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsKentucky leads the nation in the rate of cases of and deaths from cervical cancer, a disease that is...
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Bills to become law on vaping, pharmacy reform, vaccinations, drugs, at-home blood testing, coverage of cancer screening, more
Kentucky State Capitol (Photo via Wikipedia) By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range...
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Bills to become law on vaping, pharmacy reform, vaccinations, drugs, at-home blood testing, coverage of cancer screening, more
Kentucky State Capitol (Photo via Wikipedia) By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range...
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Kentucky’s rate of teenagers having children is fourth in nation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chart, adapted by Kentucky Health News By John McGary, WEKU Kentucky has the fourth-highest teenage birth rate in the U.S., according to the...
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Beshear gets bill to limit vaping products to those OKd by FDA; Ky. Youth Advocates calls for enforcement of underage-sales law
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill to reduce underage vaping by limiting legal sales to products approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and creating a database...
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State Senate weakens bill to curb underage vaping and sends it to the House with just days left in the legislative session
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill set up a regulatory framework to curb underage vaping passed out of the Senate on Thursday, March 21, but hasn’t yet been...
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Bill aimed at curbing Kentucky’s youth ‘vaping epidemic’ passes House; Ky. Youth Advocates calls on Senate to make it stronger
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill to curb what its sponsor called the youth “vaping epidemic” in Kentucky passed the state House on Monday and is now in...