Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new report offers practical strategies to help Appalachian communities tackle their high rates of obesity, which is causing many in the region to...
By Al Cross and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he would sponsor legislation to make 21 the legal age to buy tobacco...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s well documented that people in Appalachia die sooner than other Americans, and are more likely to die from smoking-related diseases. It doesn’t have...
Nearly 500 people attended the 2019 Harm Reduction Summit on April 9 in Northern Kentucky. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News COVINGTON, Ky. – Syringe exchange...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin has signed into law to ban the use of tobacco products in all Kentucky public schools and events, a policy that...
Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. (Photo by Melissa Patrick) By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky will soon offer an educational program to its judges and court staff that will...
From an editorial by The Winchester Sun Kentucky ranks first in the nation in a terrible way, according to a recent report. The most recent Child Maltreatment Report, issued in...
Bret Baier of Fox News interviews U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. —– Senate Majority Leader McConnell told Fox News April 10 that he favors “niche fixes” for health care, while vowing that next year’s...
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg —– As expected, the Trump administration has appealed a decisions by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that stopped Kentucky and Arkansas from requiring some...
Video from The Washington Post —–Kentucky has about half of the cases in an outbreak of infections from a strain of E. coli bacteria that has also sickened people in Ohio, Virginia,...