Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
By Liam Niemeyer Kentucky Lantern After a court decision last year legalized an intoxicating compound derived from hemp, a bill to regulate Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol sped through the state House on...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a path for Kentucky’s advanced-practice registered nurses to prescribe controlled substances independently has finally passed and is on its way...
HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly recalled receiving the letter announcing that...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing new rules that are aimed at minimizing contamination of tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, and that would...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even though a Senate bill to remove the state’s certificate of need requirements from freestanding birthing centers has passed out of the same committee...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Tuesday night that he could sign a medical-marijuana bill as governor if it law-enforcement and medical experts “can get...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Today, March 6, marks the third anniversary of the announcement of Kentucky’s first case of Covid-19, a disease that has infected more than 1.7...
By Tim Craig The Washington Post HAZEL GREEN, Ky. — As he claimed the first spot in a mile-long line for free food in the Appalachian foothills, Danny Blair vividly...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern Fentanyl test strips would no longer be considered drug paraphernalia in Kentucky under a bipartisan bill that the House Judiciary Committee approved Wednesday, on a...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to create a free mobile-phone application for confidential crisis intervention for Kentucky youth, parents and their teachers is poised to pass the...