Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Tyrone Borders and Sam Tyagi (L-R) —– A public-health professor and a surgeon at the University of Kentucky are sounding the alarm that the covid-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus could...
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Sunday, March 22, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear said...
Sen. Max Wise presented SB 50 on Feb. 20 in the Senate. (Legislative Research Commission photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to resolve payment issues between Kentucky...
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. —– Saturday, March 21, 2020 Gov. Andy Beshear,...
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is urging its members to ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, their senior U.S. senator, to include help for rural hospitals in the third coronavirus package being...
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at https://kycovid19.ky.gov. Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Four more Kentucky cases...
Virginia Moore is the sign-language interpreter at Gov. Andy Beshear’s coronavirus press conferences. (WKRC image) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News For the nearly 700,000 Kentuckians who are deaf or...
By Jim Hannah Legislative Research Commission FRANKFORT, Ky. – Legislation to offer patients some protection from surprise medical bills passed the state Senate Friday. “There are many factors that contribute...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House bill to let physician assistants prescribe some highly regulated drugs is moving through the Senate, but without application to some highly addictive...
Sen. Ralph Alvarado explained SB 178 to the Economic Development, Tourism and Labor Committee. (LRC photo) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to regulate plaintiff-lawyer commercials that solicit...