Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Story and photo by Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Two of the three Kentucky Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission subcommittees reviewed five grant applications asking for funds to fight the opioid...
The federal government has lifted extra requirements for doctors who want to prescribe buprenorphine, a partial opioid that is used to help drug users beat addiction. That will be a...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After increasing for two weeks, new coronavirus cases in Kentucky dropped 35% in this week’s state report, and Covid-19-related deaths also decreased, but the...
By Joseph Brown University of Kentucky Diabetes is a disease so prevalent in the U.S. that it is considered to be an epidemic. In Kentucky, according to the American Diabetes...
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News For 10 days, Kentuckians have seen and heard this message from Kelly Craft, one of the Republican candidates for governor: “All across Kentucky, an...
This has been updated. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s local and state governments continue to reap more millions from settlements with drug manufacturers and distributors, and are...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Influenza cases in Kentucky continue to decline, dropping again for the sixth week in a row, according to the state’s latest weekly flu report....
Kentucky Health News Seven of the top eight spenders on lobbying the General Assembly last year had health-care issues in play. Most of the seven were mainly focused on health...
If you’re pregnant and get infected with the coronavirus, your risk of dying is seven times greater than those of expectant mothers who are not infected, according to a study published...
Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington was the only Kentucky hospital included in the list of “America’s 100 Best Hospitals” by Healthgrades, an online source for information about physicians and hospitals....