By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the latest round of funding from the Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission on Monday, with 34 organizations set to...
Kentucky Health News Tobacco-control policies such as taxes and comprehensive smoke-free laws are associated with lower rates of youth smoking, according to recent studies. The purpose of the first study,...
Kentucky Health News Kentucky high-school students in a recent study about substance abuse and its prevention offered some pointed advice about why their peers turn to substances, and said it’s...
Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health is hosting nine town hall meetings across the state through Nov. 29 to garner input for changing how the justice...
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Around 400 patients every week, most covered by Medicaid, flood the University of Kentucky’s dental clinic seeking care they can’t find elsewhere for advanced tooth...
Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are circulating, so the vaccine season is upon us. To get the maximum protection, start with a game plan. “Doctors generally suggest getting...
Kentucky Health News Before he became an academic and a university administrator, Eli Cailouto was a public-health dentist. He returned to his roots in his latest campus-wide message as University...
Updated Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna have rolled out to pharmacies. The Food and Drug Administration approved the mRNA vaccines for everyone 6 months and older. The Centers for Disease...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Medical Association called mass shooting and gun violence “a public-health crisis” and called for more gun control in one of nine resolutions on...
As new coronavirus variants make the headlines and Covid-19 hospitalizations are are on the rise, experts told Carolyn Y. Johnson of The Washington Post that this is the new normal in a...