A 100-page draft of a House Republican plan to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act suggests that rural, middle-class Americans may soon struggle to afford health insurance. The...
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act greatly increased access to health care for Americans, especially in rural areas, says an Indiana University study published in The Journal of Rural...
Eastern Kentucky has some of the highest cancer rates in the U.S., says a study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington published in the Journal of the...
Meth use is more prevalent in counties where the sale of alcohol is illegal, say researchers at the University of Louisville. They looked at meth-lab seizures in Drug Enforcement Administration...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The annual Kentucky Kids Count report has measured the overall well-being of Kentucky’s children for 26 years, but this year’s report digs deeper and...
While major changes in health insurance seem likely as a result of the election, “That doesn’t mean you should avoid signing up for 2017 insurance coverage,” writes Trudy Lieberman of...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s teen birth rates are dropping faster in its urban counties than in its rural counties, a trend that has also been found across...
The election of Donald Trump and continued Republican control of Congress have compounded worries about the future of health care for the 440,000 Kentuckians who gained it from the expansion...
Appalachian Regional Commission service area From 1969 to 2011 the cancer death rate in rural Appalachia went from the nation’s lowest to its highest, says a study at the University of...
Pharmaceutical sales representatives from health-care giant Abbott Laboratories sales reps “were instructed to downplay the threat of addiction with OxyContin and make other claims to doctors that had no scientific...