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...
Kentucky Health NewsIf telehealth services are to remain expanded as they were in the pandemic, Congress must offset the cost, U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green said in...
UK researchers studying the state’s high maternal-mortality rate include (front row, left to right) Anna Chamberlain, Ann Coker, Linda Berry, Heather Bush; (back, left to right) John O’Brien, Cynthia...
Kentucky State University’s nursing program has outgrown the Betty White Health Center, opened in 1971. Nursing classes are spread in buildings across campus. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Jamie Lucke)...
Photo by Fat Camera via Getty Images and Country Living April is Move More Month, a natural as temperatures warm and outdoor activity is more pleasant. The American Heart...