Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
The growing prescription-drug abuse problem in Kentucky and other states was under the microscope Thursday during National Public Radio‘s “On Point,” hosted by Tom Ashbrook. The Courier-Journal‘s Laura Ungar, who...
The construction and expansion at UK HealthCare, which comprises the University of Kentucky‘s College of Medicine and Albert B. Chandler Hospital, is giving Lexington a fiscal boost in an otherwise...
Kentucky’s public health commissioner said communities are moving in the right direction by enacting smoke-free ordinances and hopes Kentucky can become a smoke-free state. “We have communities in Letcher County,...
Doctors at Fort Campbell are using a mock battlefield to assess whether or not soldiers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury are ready to return to combat. The clinic...
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News With the faint hue of green appearing in thousands of gardens and farms, the growing season has officially begun in Kentucky. While most of...
Talking about drugs and alcohol often, and when children are at a young age, are two of the best things parents can do to prevent substance abuse by teenagers. “As...
In the wake of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration‘s move to classify the electronic cigarette as tobacco rather than a more strictly regulated drug-delivery device, two University of Kentucky...
National Women’s Health Week kicked off fittingly on Mother’s Day, with communities, hospitals, health centers, churches and schools participating. The observance, which runs through May 14, is coordinated by the...
“Kentucky’s struggle to help its citizens who suffer from dependency on drugs and alcohol recently reached an impressive goal when leaders of that struggle who are prominent in different political...
Many of Kentucky’s 132 hospitals will lose money and be forced to merge because of the new health care law, says the president and CEO of the Kentucky Hospital Association....