Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
UK Professor Sharon Walsh —– University of Kentucky Professor Sharon Walsh and Lexington Fire Battalion Chief Marc Bramlage have been named the Dr. Rice C. Leach Public Health Heroes for 2022...
The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map of risk posed by the coronavirus has every county at low risk except Harrison, Robertson, Clay, Knox, Laurel and Whitley. In those counties, residents...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT – The latest bill to help independent pharmacies compete with pharmacy benefit managers sailed out of the House with overwhelming support but came...
Rep. David Meade, R-Stanford —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Legislation aimed at getting able-bodied adults off Medicaid and other public-assistance programs and back into the workforce, and decreasing...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On March 21, Republicans in Kentucky’s legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of their resolution ending the Covid-19 state of emergency about a...
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron —– Attorney General Daniel Cameron has joined 20 of his Republican counterparts in a lawsuit to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s rule requiring...
Rep. Savannah Maddox —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House-passed bill to keep state and local governments from asking employees and applicants if they have received a Covid-19...
State version of CDC map, with additional label by Kentucky Health News —– Kentucky as a whole is at lower risk from the coronavirus than it was a week ago,...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention illustration —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In the final days of the 2022 legislative session, three bills to address Kentucky’s healthcare workforce...
A newly approved product —– The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products to remain on the market, it said Thursday. “The agency authorized several tobacco-flavored vape pods and...