Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Six Kentucky hospitals have been awarded 2024 Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Awards, for placing in the top 5% or 10% of hospitals within a health-care...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If you are looking for detailed information about research on nutrition and food supplements, a website called Examine.com is a resource to provide that...
By Al Cross, Publisher, Kentucky Health News Director emeritus, Institute for Rural Journalism, University of Kentucky For more than a dozen years, Kentucky Health News has provided news you can...
By George J. Fuchs III, M.D. University of Kentucky A recent report from the American Academy of Pediatrics as part of my work on the AAP Committee of Nutrition addresses the...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News For the first time in 20 years, the rate of infant mortality in the U.S. showed a statistically significant increase in 2022, according to preliminary...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department for Public Health‘s weekly respiratory virus update, released Thursday, Nov. 2, showed that Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity was...
By Patty Craig Beech Tree News, Morgantown We will soon enter the holiday celebration season. Our culture promotes celebrating with food – despite staggering obesity statistics. Anticipating those celebrations, how...
By Jordan Rau KFF Health News Nursing homes say they can’t afford higher staffing, as the Biden administration proposes to require. But their finances are often opaque.Perhaps the biggest mystery,...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News From the start, the X factor in the Kentucky governor’s race has been former president Donald Trump: Would his endorsement propel Republican Attorney General...
Most Kentucky adults support the idea of licensing retail stores to sell tobacco and electronic-cigarette products, and revoking the licenses of repeat offenders who sell the products to minors, according...