Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News At the end of February, Kentucky received $57.8 million in federal funds to help set up a health insurance exchange or marketplace under federal health-care...
Preschoolers are increasingly having to undergo extensive surgery to get fix the cavities they’ve gotten from lack of brushing, get root canals or have teeth extracted. Five years ago, the...
The state House has approved a bill requiring long-term care facilities to run background checks using fingerprinting technology, a move that would be mostly funded by a $3 million federal...
Research has shown shoppers spend an average of just 1 second looking at the nutrition labels on food packages, which lends credence to an argument that the labels need to...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News American children’s sugar consumption is down, but kids are still eating too much sugar, and they are getting most of it at home. So...