Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
“If you’re putting a needle in your arm, you’re playing Russian roulette,” because so many super-powerful narcotics such as fentanyl are in the illegal drug trade, Dr. Eric Guerrant, emergency...
As the coal industry declines, rapidly in Central Appalachia, there are “clues suggesting that health and mental-health issues will pose enormous challenges to the affected coal communities, and will linger...
Dr. Michael Karpf Dr. Michael Karpf, who has led the University of Kentucky Medical Center during a decade of major growth, announced Wednesday that he would retire in 2017. At...
Base chart from Insider Louisville Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky will be the only health insurer offering coverage for next year to Kentuckians on the government exchange in 54 counties. That...
When Shaping Our Appalachian Region was formed to help improve and diversify the economy of Appalachian Kentucky, one of the 10 working groups on issues was about health, which is...
Attorney General Andy Beshear has ruled that the University of Kentucky violated the state Open Records Act by not giving the Lexington Herald-Leader records about a Hazard heart clinic that...
Kentucky health officials are warning that a “public health crisis involving dangerous drugs” looms over the state, and could hit this weekend, the Department for Public Health said in a...
The only abortion clinic in the eastern half of Kentucky will remain closed while it appeals the state’s closure of it to the state Supreme Court. The court denied a...
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Recently a tweet from Lauren Sausser, a fine health reporter I know in South Carolina, caught my eye. “Crazy drug prices became personal....
A foundation that the University of Kentucky created to supplement pay for physicians has “gone beyond its scope,” its former director told the Lexington Herald-Leader for a long story examining...