Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Gooch, right, with Jessamine County Judge-Executive David West Randy Gooch, public health director in Jessamine County for the last four years, is the new deputy commissioner of the state Department...
Natural Bridge State Resort Park is near the Mountain Parkway. Kentucky faces many unique health challenges, but they don’t get enough news coverage, which hamstrings the state and its communities...
The state and St. Louis-based Centene Corp. have settled their lawsuits and other disputes stemming from the 2013 departure of Centene’s Kentucky Spirit Health Plan from the state Medicaid managed-care...
An increasing number of grandparents are raising their grandchildren, largely because many of the children’s parents are addicted to heroin or prescription drugs, both increasing problems in rural areas, Teresa...
Kentucky has long ranked No. 1 in cancer deaths, and in deaths from lung cancer, so it seems only natural that it rank first in deaths from smoking. It did...
Appalachian Regional Commission service area From 1969 to 2011 the cancer death rate in rural Appalachia went from the nation’s lowest to its highest, says a study at the University of...
Citing the magnitude of threats posed by illegal drugs, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has added Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties to the Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking...
A Republican recently elected to the state House has filed legislation that would allow physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances, something they can do in every other state beginning in...
University of Kentucky video Leaders of the National Institutes of Health spent Thursday in Hazard with Fifth District U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers and local health leaders to examine efforts...