Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Dr. Van Breeding (Photo: Ryan C. Hermens, Herald-Leader) —– The rescues and initial cleanup are over, but health-care workers in areas of Eastern Kentucky that were hit by flooding now face...
The flood wrecked the Mountain Comprehensive Care Corp. warehouse in Whitesburg. (MCCC photo) —– The flooding in Eastern Kentucky has disrupted much of life, and health care is no exception. “The...
Judge Larry Thompson —– A judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals has issued an order that, in effect, at least temporarily bans abortions in Kentucky unless needed to save...
Individual and public health are influenced by many things, including the educational characteristics of people and their communities. Education will be the focus of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky’s 2022...
Dibakar Bhattacharyya and the membrane (UK photo by Ben Corwin) —– By Elizabeth Chapin University of Kentucky A team of researchers led by University of Kentucky College of Engineering Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya and...
Baptist Health Louisville says it is the first in Kentucky to offer an “advanced, minimally invasive treatment” to help men who suffer from an enlarged prostate gland, or benign prostatic hyperplasia...
The Kentucky Office of Rural Health is one of three organizations in the U.S. to receive a three-year, nearly $900,000 grant from the federal Office of Rural Health Policy to improve access to health...
Photo illustration from KAHP —– The trade group for commercial insurers and Medicaid managers in Kentucky is offering $20 gift cards at school and health-department vaccination events for people getting...
The Partnership to End Addiction has announced plans to launch a personalized text messaging program to help curb opioid misuse this summer in Kentucky, Idaho, Tennessee and North and South Carolina. The...