Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Northern Kentucky debate (Photo by Albert Cesare, Cincinnati Enquirer) —– By Al CrossKentucky Health NewsHealth-related issues figure prominently in some of the final messages that the candidates for governor are delivering...
Insurance Department maps, adapted by Kentucky Health News; click on either for a larger version. Open enrollment for federally subsidized health insurance in Kentucky next year will begin Friday, Nov....
Dr. Carol Peddicord holds a model representing 5 lbs. of body fat. (Clinton County News photo) —– A doctor and pharmacist in rural Albany, Kentucky are seeing big results in the...
Sunrise Manor volunteers used money from fees to buy items that residents could use. Here, Tickle Ragland, second row at left, and Rebekah Okeson, second row at right, are pictured...
By Trudy Lieberman Community Health News Service Along with crunchy leaves and pumpkins, fall brings a slew of advertising for insurance plans that fill the gaps in Medicare coverage. Misleading...
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...
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...
Federal health agencies are about to warn doctors that they need to ask “every patient with an apparent respiratory infection” about their history of using electronic cigarettes, Julie Steenhuysen of Reuters reports. The Centers...