Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
A Republican-backed law that established medical-review panels to screen lawsuits against health-care providers before they can proceed Is now a year old, and things have not gone exactly as proponents...
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine’s Bowling Green Campus welcomed its first class of 30 medical students Aug. 3 during its inaugural white- coat ceremony at Western Kentucky University, Don Sergent reports for the Bowling...
Two University of Kentucky researchers are on the genetic trail of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Their detective story has not reached its end, but it...
Kentucky Health News published a story July 10 about a national database revealing that staffing levels at nursing homes weren’t as good as the industry has made them out to be. Last...
Kentucky Medicaid officials have suspended collection of co-payments by patients in managed care, a change they had ordered at the start of July. “The co-pays caught health providers by surprise...
Kentucky’s Andy Beshear is one of 12 Democratic attorneys general suing the federal government over its new rules allowing “association health plans,” a product long advocated by Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul...
The Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center at Morehead won the Center of Excellence Award in Distribution at this month’s national AHEC conference for working to improve the health-care workforce in rural...
Attorney General Andy Beshear filed suit July 12 against Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, charging the firm with knowingly misrepresenting the addictive nature of its drugs. The lawsuit in Madison Circuit Court alleges that the company...
A Lexington restaurant was recently profiled in The New York Times for its efforts in giving people in treatment for drug and alcohol addiction a second chance. DV8 Kitchen opened last September and...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Department of Insurance has issued a $1.5 million fine to a subsidiary of CVS Caremark — a pharmacy benefit manager for all but one of the...