Warmer weather brings out mosquitoes — here are some tips to combat them and protect yourself
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Now that we are in the hot weather season, it’s time to take steps to…
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In bitter cold, here how to protect yourself and loved ones from hypothermia and carbon monoxide poisoning
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky faces bitterly cold weather as part of the first major winter storm…
CLIMB-Health program program aims to help those in recovery into career pathway
A statewide program in Kentucky aims to provide credentialing and pathways to a career in social work for people in…
Food safety: After power outage, here are steps to assure safety of refrigerated, frozen foods
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hurricane Helene brought power outages across the state, which means Kentuckians need to be…
Nationwide, youth e-cigarette use drops to the lowest level in a decade
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A half million fewer young people vaped this year than last, according to an…
Opinion – Karena Cash: Youth employment is good, but not if health, safety are at risk
Entering the labor force young has its benefits. Having a job as a teen (ages 16-18) can predict higher quality jobs and…
Sunday read: A look at vaccine misinformation — it abounds as measles spread
By Amy Maxmen and Céline Gounder KFF Health News Measles is on the rise in the United States. In the first quarter of…
Bird flu’s spread from poultry to cattle to humans provokes worry among feds, states
By Jennifer Shutt States Newsroom Dairy farmers throughout the country are on guard and the federal government is mobilizing after…
Tips to prevent drowning, #1 cause of unintentional injury-related deaths among children under 5
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As summer approaches and people begin to head to pools, lakes, ponds and streams,…
Flu up 33% in final week of ’23, continues to drive jumps in respiratory illness; not too late for flu shot
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Like the rest of the nation, Kentucky saw another big jump in influenza cases…
State seeing uptick in cases of ‘whooping cough,’ a highly contagious respiratory illness
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentucky is seeing an uptick in cases of pertussis, more commonly called whooping cough, a…
New vaccines to be released next month for COVID, flu and RSV, to curb ever-mutating respiratory viruses
Kentucky Health News Americans will have access to several vaccines this fall to protect them against respiratory viruses, including COVID-19,…
Red-meat allergy under-diagnosed because clinicians have little working knowledge of it, say new studies
Kentucky Health News Thousands of Kentuckians are likely living with an allergy to red meat, and many of them probably…
Two leading compilers of abortion data issue unique reports giving insight into U.S. abortion incidence
By Tessa Redmond Kentucky Today Two of the nation’s leading compilers of abortion data published unique reports providing insight into…
Health report: 107 counties are mostly COVID green; large spike in flu cases; two new moneypox cases
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today In data released on Friday, Kentucky COVID-19 Community Levels are mostly green, however the number…
Vast improvement in COVID numbers — 103 counties in green zone; now in ‘living-with-COVID’ phase
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today The latest weekly COVID-19 Community Levels map, issued each Friday by the Kentucky Department for…
Life expectancy in U.S. drops for second year in a row in 2021, according to new CDC report
Life expectancy at birth in the United States declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, according to new provisional…
COVID report: Substantial drop in cases, deaths and hospitalizations; 37 counties had 100 or more cases
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today For the second week in a row, the number of new cases of COVID-19 as…
West Nile virus detected in Kentucky, transmitted through mosquitoes; how to protect yourself
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today West Nile virus has started appearing in Kentucky once again this year, and although there…
CDC moves to expand monkeypox testing capacity in effort to head off spread; one case reported in KY
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Kentucky still is reporting just one probable case of monkeypox as of Wednesday afternoon, but…
CDC and FDA investigation into popular Jif peanut butter expanding to companies who use it
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today The CDC and FDA investigations into a multistate outbreak of salmonella infections linked to certain…
Reminders about potential health risks, as water activities kick off Memorial Day weekend
Kentucky Today Memorial Day weekend is often considered the unofficial start of summer and outdoor activities, so the State Division…