By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill to exempt health-care providers who have 90% or more of their claims approved from health-insurance companies’ requirements for prior authorization of ceratin...
State Department for Public Health graphs, adapted by Kentucky Health News By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News For the first time since December, the state Department for Public Health says both...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill set up a regulatory framework to curb underage vaping passed out of the Senate on Thursday, March 21, but hasn’t yet been...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A House-approved bill aimed at reducing maternal-mortality rates in Kentucky was approved without dissent by the Senate Health Services Committee on March 22 and...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill to allow Kentucky pharmacists to order and administer vaccinations to children down to the age of 5 has gained final passage, but...
State Rep. Marianne Proctor (KL photo by Sarah Ladd) By Sarah LaddKentucky Lantern A bill that opponents said would effectively repeal Kentucky’s certificate-of-need law for health-care facilities failed in...
Three of the proposed warning labels for cigarette packs and ads By Kevin McGillAssociated Press A federal rule to require cigarette packs and advertising to include graphic illustrations that demonstrate...
Brittany Smalls, Ph.D., is at upper right. By Hilary SmithUniversity of Kentucky One of the cover stories in the annual reserach report from the American Diabetes Association is about...
Getty Images via UK By Jordan StricklerUniversity of Kentucky The Kentucky Tick Surveillance Project is now accepting tick-testing submissions from Kentucky residents. This project, produced by the University of...
By Elizabeth ChapinUniversity of Kentucky A recently study at UK’s Markey Cancer Center uncovered a critical pathway involved in evasion of the immune system by breast-cancer cells, pointing the...
