Kentucky Health News With just weeks left before school starts, it’s time to make sure your school-aged children are up to date on required immunizations. Toward this effort, the...
Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 pounds over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself “at my ideal body weight,” with his cholesterol below...
By Shepherd Snyder, WEKU The annual Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Report says overdose deaths in 2023 dropped by 9.8 percent from the year prior; 2022’s report showed a 5 percent...
By Dr. Scott BlackUniversity of Kentucky The potential benefits of letting your child participate in sports are innumerable, but sports also come with inherent risks — many of them...
By Hilary BrownUniversity of Kentucky A woman’s pelvic floor, whether she realizes it or not, is constantly under stress. Pregnancy, obesity and physically demanding jobs can strain the pelvic-floor...
The Volunteers of America chapter that includes Kentucky will spend $123,000 over the next nine months to figure out how to get more Black women into treatment for substance-use...
By Stan IngoldWEKU Experts are concerned about a growing mental-health crisis nationally. This story looks at the struggles faced by those dealing with access to mental-health care in Eastern...
By Zacharie LambWKMS More than a year after local governments across Kentucky began receiving shares of the legal settlement with opioid manufacturers and distributors, several local leaders in far...
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The University of Kentucky will not build a hospital in southeast Lexington because it wants to do what its network of rural hospital partners want: focus...
By Gia Mudd-Martin University of Kentucky Heart disease and Type 2 diabetes are often preventable, but Kentucky has the nation’s ninth-highest rate of heart disease and the fifth highest...
