Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
In response to Kentucky’s health-care workforce shortages, the legislature has sent Gov. Andy Beshear a bill to create a fund with private and public money to help more Kentuckians pursue...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern A bill aimed at preventing burnout among physicians has cleared both chambers of the General Assembly. Senate Bill 12 unanimously cleared the Senate in late February and the...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to a court decision that deemed products containing Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol to be legal, a bill to regulate products with the substance has...
George Rawlings, who made a fortune by starting an industry that recovers health-care providers’ costs of caring for patients who later get settlements or verdicts for injuries from accidents and...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News All but 10 of Kentucky’s 120 counties have a low risk of Covid-19 infection on the latest federal risk map, and Menifee County is...
Dr. Stephanie Mayfield Gibson, who was state health commissioner in 2012-15, is the new board chair of the Trust for America’s Health, which defines itself as “a non-profit, non-partisan organization...
By Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist Covid-19 is not the common cold. Here’s an effort to keep you up to date on long-Covid developments. What we knew: Long Covid after...
By Drs. Scott E. Hadland and Evan Wood; and Eri D. Solomon Opinion article published in JAMA Internal Medicine North America is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic now driven by illicitly...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to ensure that Kentuckians with disabilities are not discriminated against when being considered for an organ transplant has passed both houses of...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to require private and public insurance plans in Kentucky to cover biomarker testing for cancer and screenings for genetic-based reactions to drugs...