Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Al Cross Kentucky Health NewsOne in four Kentucky adults in a poll taken in 2020 said they had ever been diagnosed with depression, a higher share than in any...
By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Thursday, Aug. 31, marks International Overdose Awareness Day, a time when attention is directed toward raising awareness about opioid overdose and ways to reverse...
By Dr. Ilhem Messaoudi University of Kentucky After an intense season of respiratory syncytial virus in the commonwealth, we have a new tool to protect children from RSV. In July...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Twenty-eight percent of students in Kentucky schools were chronically absent from classes during the last academic year, compared to 18 percent in the 2018-19...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new website called KyLoop has launched to provide an online connection space for community professionals who work in outreach and enrollment through Kynect,...
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Some patients find out they’ve been dropped from Medicaid when they come in to pick up a prescription. Others, when they arrive for a doctor’s...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern The “vast majority” of Kentucky’s Covid-19 cases are now the variant EG.5 – also known as “Eris” – according to Louisville infectious disease expert Dr....
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Kentucky would be “well served by the improved access to health care” if it were to repeal its certificate-of-need laws, a retired economics professor told...
By Amy Picirilli University of Kentucky The Covid-19 public-health emergency may be officially over, but Covid has not completely disappeared from concern. Lexington hospitals are seeing an increase in Covid...
Kentucky is farther behind on nursing-home inspections than only one other state, and the huge backlog might last a long time, Beshear administration officials state officials warned a legislative committee...