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By Amy Wilson and Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new report from the University of Kentucky has documented the rate at which the state’s poor and disabled children are...
To help the increasing number of veterans and military service personnel who are needing treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues in Kentucky, a task force has been assembled...
The discovery of the Higgs particle, which gives matter its mass, was a huge breakthrough for scientists since “confirming its existence was imperative to a full scientific understanding of the...
Most Kentucky nursing homes exceeded the national average of the share of residents without psychosis or a related condition who nevertheless received antipsychotic drugs, according to federal data gathered by...
Kentucky reporters can now see how the nursing homes in their area are treating patients with dementia. The Boston Globe has published a list of all the nursing homes in...
State and federal officials are investigating three Kentucky doctors and one nurse practitioner because of the unusually high amounts of antipsychotic drug prescriptions they write for Medicaid patients. In 2008...