Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Sharon Burton has been getting national attention for her series “The Cost of Addiction” in her weekly Adair County Community Voice in Columbia, Kentucky. On Nov. 15, in Ashland, Ky., she will discuss with...
Section 1115 waivers are the device being used to add work and other “community engagement” rules. —– Arizona has indefinitely suspended its plan to add work requirements to its Medicaid program “due...
Photo illustration from NaturalHealthNews.com —– More than a third of Kentucky school students are in violation of the year-old state law requiring them to be vaccinated for the liver disease...
Lisa Middleton, patient advocate —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While legislators and health advocates work to control the surging cost of insulin, a mother with two children and...
Four students at Grayson County High School in Leitchfield were taken to the local hospital Oct. 15, and two were arrested, after inhaling vapor or aerosol from “dab pen” devices, police said....
Gov. Bevin and Attorney General Beshear debated Oct. 15. (Photo by Ryan Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A key difference between Kentucky’s gubernatorial candidates is that...
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation graphic; click it to enlarge —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than one out of five Kentucky children between 10 and 17 are obese,...
Daniel Cameron and Greg Stumbo (L-R) —– Both candidates for attorney general of Kentucky said Monday night that they would press legal action against manufacturers of opioids, and Democrat Greg...
Why should journalists attend a workshop on covering local drug problems? “We cannot continue to wear blinders and ignore this problem that is now affecting every member of our communities,”...
L to R: Reps. Russell Weber, Joni Jenkins and Danny Bentley and Sens. Stephen Meredith and Morgan McGarvey —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State Rep. Danny Bentley didn’t mince...