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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The end of the pandemic meant resumption of eligibility verification for Medicaid, and almost half of the Kentuckians who have been asked to renew...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of hepatitis C infection, will hold its 10th annual Viral Hepatitis Conference next week, on...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern A federal judge on Friday stayed a temporary block on part of a new Kentucky law that banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. That...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Mental Health America, a nonprofit that promotes mental health and programs to address it, ranked Kentucky 11th in the nation for mental health and...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission will hold its first public hearing Monday, July 17, about the use of an exotic psychedelic drug, ibogaine,...
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern RED BIRD, Ky. — At the Red Bird Mission dental clinic in southeastern Kentucky, patients with few or no teeth now are eligible for dentures...
UK press release The University of Kentucky Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences will continue its work to study major environmental health impacts on Kentuckians with a renewed award from...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With just a few weeks left before school starts, it’s time to make sure your school-aged children are up to date on their required...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News About a month ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services withdrew its requirement that health-care workers get a Covid-19 vaccination, and while the...
By Jennifer Shutt States Newsroom The Biden administration announced new initiatives Friday that could reduce health-care costs, though none will take effect immediately. The changes include a proposed rule that...