Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Jeff Okeson, D.M.D. Professor and dean, University of Kentucky College of Dentistry From Halloween through New Year’s, holiday parties and family events are filled with gifts and delicious treats....
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department for Public Health‘s weekly Respiratory Virus Update, released Thursday, Oct. 26 showed that Covid-19 activity was moderate, and influenza and respiratory syncytial...
Dr. Steven J. Stack, commissioner of the state Department for Public Health, is the new president of the the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Stack has been state...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern For more than three years, I’ve written about Covid-19. The people who caught it and those who kept it longer than they should have. The...
Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron is among a large, bipartisan group of attorneys general suing Meta, the parent firm of social-media platforms Facebook and Instagram, for purposefully harming...
A sneaky, infectious, drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris has been found on five patients on one floor at the Albert B. Chandler Hospital at the University of Kentucky, UK announced...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In a session focused on challenges of getting the psychedelic drug ibogaine approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating addiction with help of the state’s...
The inaugural East Kentucky Diabetes Symposium will be held Friday, Nov. 3 in Hazard. In Kentucky’s Appalachian counties, 16% of adults have diabetes, and the five area development districts with the...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern On March 6, 2020, a Kentuckian tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, and Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency. The...
By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky Every October, the city of Versailles is adorned in pink. Light poles downtown don bright pink banners — each with the photo of someone...