Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Kentucky Health News March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, which serves to remind everyone who is 45 and older – or is younger than 45 with a family history of...
Funeral services were held Friday for Ernie Scott, who was director of the State Office of Rural Health in the University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health. He died of a rare...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ensure greater access to information and resources for mental-health care before and after the birth of a child passed without dissent...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill that would make medical marijuana legal for some in Kentucky has passed the state Senate for the first time and awaits a...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A revised bill with language to ban gender-affirming care for Kentucky’s transgender youth moved quickly through both houses of the General Assembly Thursday and is...
By Al CrossKentucky Health News The latest Centers for Disease Control map of Covid-19 risks in Kentucky is about the same as last week’s, but “Covid is definitely increasing,” Gov....
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians’ sense of well-being from 2008 to 2017 was the worst of any U.S. state except West Virginia, according to a research paper that uses...
Robert Slaton, a health-care consultant and former Kentucky public-health commissioner who was a catalyst for various health-improvement projects in the state, including Passport Health Plan and Kentucky Health News, died Dec. 27...
New York Times graphs, from state data, adapted by Kentucky Health News; click image to enlarge By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky recorded 40 percent more new coroinavirus cases...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most Kentuckians probably don’t know much about Medicaid, but for more than one in three people in the state, it is a lifeline. In...