Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky has released four new public service announcements to show the dangers of using e-cigarettes for youth. The announcements are part of the foundation’s “I Just Didn’t...
Republican Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration has denied an abortion-clinic license to Planned Parenthood in Louisville, saying it performed abortions without proper authorization from the previous administration, as Democrat Steve Beshear was leaving...
Many if not most rural hospitals are likely to take a hit from an Aug. 13 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “Hospitals...
New York Times photo by Brittainy Newman —– Pressed by the chief of the Food and Drug Administration last fall, Juul Labs “stopped selling most of its hugely popular flavored nicotine pods in stores...
A Food and Drug Administration photo illustration shows three of the 13 proposed warnings. —– The Food and Drug Administration has again published a proposed rule to “require color graphics depicting the...
Dr. Ernie Fletcher spoke in Owensboro last year about his plan to take the Recovery Kentucky concept beyond Kentucky. (Photo by Alan Warren, Messenger-Inquirer) —– An organization headed by former Kentucky...
Acting Citizenship and Immigration Director Ken Cuccinelli announced the final rule at a White House press conference. —– Adult immigrants would find it harder to remain in the United States...
The ad’s spokeswoman criticizes a bill that she claims will help insurance companies hurt patients. —– Kentuckians have been seeing lots of TV ads from a group that calls itself Doctor...
Photo from Healthline —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating 127 reports of seizures, tremors, fainting or other neurological symptoms that may be related...
Banner photo for Courier-Journal series: grave of a Menifee County toddler who was raped and murdered by her mother’s boyfriend (Louisville Courier Journal photo by Matt Stone) —– On the same...