Health Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Oct 23

Health

Advocacy Group Finds Trace Contamination In Many Regional Water Systems

Tap water delivered by more than 2,000 water systems across the Ohio Valley contain pollutants, many harmful to human health, even though they mostly meet federal drinking water standards. That’s according to a newly-updated database released by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization. Millions of residents in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia are being […]

By Brittany Patterson

Oct 23

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Advocacy Group Finds Trace Contamination In Many Regional Water Systems

By Brittany Patterson

Oct 18

Health

How Should Opioid Lawsuit Money Be Spent? Ohio Valley Has No Shortage Of Needs

At a town hall event in Logan, Ohio, Kelly Taulbee walks through the steps of an encounter with someone experiencing an opioid overdose. She’s training a group to use NARCAN, the opioid reversal medication. She pulled out the small applicator and demonstrated how easy it is to spray the medication in someone’s nose. As the […]

By Aaron Payne

Oct 18

Health

How Should Opioid Lawsuit Money Be Spent? Ohio Valley Has No Shortage Of Needs

Aaron Payne

Oct 16

Health

Federal Agency to Hear Comment on Silica Dust as Black Lung Epidemic Rages

The Mine Safety and Health Administration will host a public meeting Thursday as it considers action on regulating respirable silica, one of the major contributors to Appalachia’s skyrocketing rates of black lung disease. MSHA issued a request for information in response to calls for increased regulation after a 2018 investigation from NPR and PBS Frontline. […]

By Sydney Boles

Oct 16

Health

Federal Agency to Hear Comment on Silica Dust as Black Lung Epidemic Rages

Sydney Boles

Oct 13

Health

New Kentucky Memorial Honors Miners Who Died Of Black Lung

Coal miners and family members of miners who have died from black lung disease gathered Sunday in Whitesburg, Kentucky, to dedicate a new memorial to miners who perished from the workplace disease. While Appalachian coal country has several memorials to mining disasters, this is believed to be the first memorial to remember the thousands of […]

By Sydney Boles

Oct 13

Health

New Kentucky Memorial Honors Miners Who Died Of Black Lung

Sydney Boles

Oct 10

Health

Report Ranks Ohio Valley High In Childhood Obesity Amid Cuts In SNAP Benefits

A report released Thursday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds nearly 323,000 children are obese in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio. Obesity rates among the region’s children remain some of the highest in the nation. West Virginia has the nation’s second-highest rate of obese children, Kentucky third, and Ohio tenth. Mississippi has the highest […]

By Mary Meehan

Oct 10

Health

Report Ranks Ohio Valley High In Childhood Obesity Amid Cuts In SNAP Benefits

Mary Meehan

Sep 30

Health

Water is Unaffordable for Nearly Half of Martin Countians, Report Finds

A new report finds nearly half the residents of Martin County, Kentucky, cannot afford water service. Local activists with the Martin County Concerned Citizens are ringing alarm bells about water affordability as the beleaguered county faces another likely water rate increase in the coming months. Since the ReSource first reported on its water crisis two […]

By Sydney Boles

Sep 30

Health

Water is Unaffordable for Nearly Half of Martin Countians, Report Finds

Sydney Boles

Sep 27

Health

Ohio To Test For Toxic PFAS Chemicals In Drinking Water

Ohio will begin testing some public and private water systems for the presence of toxic nonstick, fluorinated chemicals, broadly called PFAS. In a press release issued Friday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the state’s environmental and public health agencies will analyze drinking water systems located near places with known contamination. That includes near firefighting training […]

By Brittany Patterson

Sep 27

Health

Ohio To Test For Toxic PFAS Chemicals In Drinking Water

Brittany Patterson

Sep 24

Health

The VA Fired A Doctor For “Egregious” Misconduct. The Bevin Administration Hired Him.

Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration hired a physician to lead the state’s infectious disease office just months after the Department of Veterans Affairs dismissed that doctor for “egregious” medical misconduct. Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services hired Dr. John “Mel” Bennett in the same month that the VA’s Inspector General published a report highly critical […]

By Mary Meehan

Sep 24

Health

The VA Fired A Doctor For “Egregious” Misconduct. The Bevin Administration Hired Him.

Mary Meehan

Sep 20

Health

Born Exposed: Schools Seek Ways To Help Children Exposed To Drugs In The Womb

Students line up single file behind teachers at West Elementary in Athens, Ohio, for. the walk downhill from the brick building to board buses or meet up with the person taking them home. Some talk about their day, others run off to the playground and some discuss the latest Pokémon movie. A chant for the […]

By Aaron Payne

Sep 20

Health

Born Exposed: Schools Seek Ways To Help Children Exposed To Drugs In The Womb

Aaron Payne

Aug 28

Health

Mining Regulators Seek Information On Silica Dust Exposure

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration announced Wednesday it will collect information on how dust from silica, or quartz, has contributed to Appalachia’s worsening epidemic of black lung disease, and ways that mining operations might prevent exposure. The announcement comes after an NPR investigation last year found that MSHA had failed to sufficiently regulate […]

By Sydney Boles

Aug 28

Health

Mining Regulators Seek Information On Silica Dust Exposure

Sydney Boles