Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Kentucky’s expanded Medicaid program covered approximately 11,000 substance-use treatment services in the second quarter of 2016, a huge increase from the 1,500 services from January through March 2014, the first...
The coming Republican control of state government makes it likely that doctors and other health-care providers will get from the General Assembly what they have wanted for more than 30...
Heart attacks are 30 percent more likely during winter because of the weather, but there are precautions you can take to reduce your risk. “The winter months can put even...
The Medical Center and Western Kentucky Universityalready cooperate on other medical-education programs. Officials and civic leaders in Southern Kentucky have high hopes for a medical school partnership between the University...
A renowned surgeon barred from practicing or teaching at the University of Kentucky for abusive behavior said in a television interview this month that “I think you have to be...
The University of Louisville and KentuckyOne Health are ending the joint operating agreement under which KentuckyOne has managed the University Hospital and the James Graham Brown Cancer Center. “The decision...
The two big lobbies for hospitals are telling Congress and President-elect Donald Trump, who are planning to repeal and replace President Obama’s health-reform law, that “the government should help hospitals...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be replaced “in a phased-in way over a period of time,” not right away, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday. “You...
You go to the emergency room of a hospital, choosing it because it’s in the network of your health insurer. But then you get a big bill because the ER...
Screen shot of “Hazard Ridge” video game Researchers at the University of Kentucky are using a video game to educate young people about the dangers of agriculture, a line of...