Business

Allergy Partners of Boone County and Eastern Kentucky bought out the Community Allergy and Asthma practice of Dr. Amy Mashburn, who retired, last August.
According to Allergy Partners office manager Kathy Patton, the Cynthiana office, located in the same place as Community Allergy, at 106 Ladish Road, is open two and half days a week. Their phone number is 234-8852.

The cost of food in American remains affordable. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, American consumers spend, on average, just over 10 percent of their disposable income for food. That means the average household will have earned enough disposable income - that portion of income available for spending or saving - to pay for its annual food supply in about seven weeks, said Kentucky Farm Bureau president Mark Haney.

Patrick Duff, CRNA, and Cristina Lamar, D.O., join Anjum Bux, M.D., in providing treatment options and management techniques to patients with either acute or chronic pain. Both providers began seeing patients in the fall of 2015.
The HMH Pain Management Clinic was established in February 2015. The clinic will diagnose acute and chronic pain and create individualized treatment plans for patients, based on a number of considerations, including the cause and level of pain.