Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The demand for syringe exchanges crosses county lines; if local governments haven’t allowed one in a county where intravenous drug users live, some of them go to a county that...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Just days before the end of open enrollment on Healthcare.gov, national and state officials are encouraging Kentuckians to sign up for federally subsidized health insurance....
A two-page infographic from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and Kentucky Youth Advocates aims to fight the surge in use of electronic cigarette usage among Kentucky teenagers. “While youth cigarette smoking in Kentucky has steadily...
Screenshot of Healthcare.gov website — By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With just a few days left to enroll in a health-insurance plan on Healthcare.gov, it’s time to sign up...
Raynor Mullins — The University of Kentucky has agreed to rehire a former dental professor and pay him $620,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging he was taken off the payroll...
Nick Gregory, 26, a manager, vaped on a Juul at Botany Bay in Lexington. (Photo: Charles Bertram, Lexington Herald-Leader) — Electronic cigarette use among students is so widespread at one...
More Kentucky children are not being immunized “for medical and religious reasons,” Ashleigh Mills reports for Spectrum News. “Doctors worry the number could be growing because of misinformation circulating online.”...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Kentucky moves toward implementing a stricter Medicaid plan, a group of providers, consumers and health advocates say they worry that its penalties, work...
The share of Kentucky children without health insurance rose last year. — “This shouldn’t be happening,” Editor Merrill Goozner writes in a Modern Healthcare editorial titled, “The canary in the...
Jewish Hospital has a prominent place along Interstate 65. (Courier Journal photo by Sam Upshaw) — “The University of Louisville may soon stop providing important medical services at Jewish Hospital...