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While Kentuckians the last two years have seen considerable difficulties across a number of fronts, one thing has remained constant. And that's record economic

The Kosair Charities Face It Movement has collaborated with the Kentucky Children's Hospital (KCH) and Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) to bring awareness to the importance of safe medication storage in the home to prevent these accidental ingestions and keep children healthy and safe.

Every nine minutes, a young child goes to the emergency department because they ingested medicine incorrectly. To bring awareness to the importance of safe medication storage in the home, the Kosair Charities Face It Movement has collaborated with the Kentucky Children's Hospital (KCH) and Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC) on a new campaign aimed at preventing these accidental ingestions and keeping children healthy and safe. WUKY's Josh James has the story.

There wasn't much pushback when the cabinet presented what it believes to be in the most need of from the remaining budget funds: child care.

For health professionals, their messaging is a delicate balance of making sure the population currently disproportionately impacted by Monkeypox knows how serious it is, while not singling them out.

Fewer than 300 Kentuckians were hospitalized with COVID-19 at the beginning of June. That jumped to 483 this week.

Only a handful of monkeypox cases have been confirmed in Kentucky – all in the Louisville area – but the state’s top health official says there are undoubtedly more that haven’t been identified. About 900 cases are known nationwide. Still, the situation differs dramatically from the COVID outbreak in many key ways.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – State Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack says while hospitalizations, ICU bed and ventilator use all remain at some of the lowest levels since the beginning

While COVID-19 cases have been trending up in Kentucky, hospitalizations have remained more stable than in the past, a fact frequently cited as a hopeful sign. But those numbers are starting to creep up as well.

“The patient remains isolated, and health officials are working to identify anyone the patient may have had close contact with while infectious,” the Department for Public Health said in a