Kentucky Homeplace trains 11 more community health workers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Community health workers fill a vital role in meeting the health-care needs of Kentuckians. Now the state now has 11 more of them. CHWs...
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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Community health workers fill a vital role in meeting the health-care needs of Kentuckians. Now the state now has 11 more of them. CHWs...
he Kentucky Association of Health Plans is hosting its third annual vaccination pop-up clinic at the Kentucky State Fair and while supplies last, will give away free, unlimited ride wristbands...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Sitting in high school classes was “always a struggle” for a young Joshua Claytor. He filled his papers with “doodles.” Certain math concepts eluded his...
By Dennis Kim and Norah Charles University of Kentucky Acupuncture involves the insertion of needles on specific points of the body. In Eastern terminology, it helps stimulate the flow of...
Barbara Kingsolver says she intended her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead to be her “great Appalachian novel” that told the story of how the opioid epidemic has ravaged the region, and its...
Kentucky Health News America has Generation X, Generation Z and more, but it also has “the sandwich generation,” adults between 40 and 59 who care for their aging parents and...
Kentucky Health News “Health-care workers are increasingly being assaulted or shot on the job, making hospitals and clinics among the most dangerous workplaces in America,” report Tina Reed and Jason Millman of Axios. ...
By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Using antibodies derived from alpacas, a University of Kentucky research team has developed a tool that could lead to new therapies to stop the growth of...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed a lawsuit against three pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers over an alleged insulin pricing scheme. The lawsuit...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Federal rules requiring Covid-19 vaccinations in health care settings were lifted in early June, and while several of the larger Kentucky hospital systems soon...