Rep. Kim Moser presents SB 74to the state House (Ky. LRC photo) By Melissa Patrick and Al CrossKentucky Health News On the last day of the 2024 legislative session,...
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern In a year when the American Cancer Society asked the Kentucky legislature to increase spending on tobacco prevention, lawmakers cut it and passed an anti-vaping...
Kentucky State Capitol (Photo via Wikipedia) By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range...
Kentucky State Capitol (Photo via Wikipedia) By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention graphic By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health NewsA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says the more health-related social needs a woman has, the less likely...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chart, adapted by Kentucky Health News By John McGary, WEKU Kentucky has the fourth-highest teenage birth rate in the U.S., according to the...
A program to bring more nurses into the workforce will be offered in the Jefferson County Public Schools. The program will allow high-school seniors to graduate with a licensed...
WKYT map, adapted by Kentucky Health News By Al CrossKentucky Health News Several Kentucky water systems, mostly on and near the Ohio River, will have to fund ways to...
Photo illustration by Gerd Altmann, Pixabay, via Newswise Kentucky Health NewsIf your parents or grandparents smoke, you are more likely to smoke. Perhaps that’s one reason smoking persists in...
This story will be updated. Politico Pulse reports: Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is expected to criticize the Food and Drug Administration for “failing to do the bare minimum to...