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...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three Kentucky hospitals, in the state’s three largest metripolitan areas, have been named among the nation’s “Best Regional Hospitals” in the annual ranking...
By Stu Johnson, WEKU Homelessness is a reality in virtually every section of Kentucky. Although often thought of as an urban challenge, rural Kentucky also finds the plight of...
Jennifer Redmond Knight, who serves as co-principal investigator for the lung-cancer screening project under the Kentucky Lung Cancer, Education, Awareness, Detection, Survivorship Collaborative, said one reasons lung-cancer screening remains...
Increasing state cigarette taxes has proven to be an effective policy to decrease smoking rates, and it appears that is also true in Kentucky. Nearly 30 percent of Kentucky...
By John McGary, WEKU “Estill Medical. This is Madisyn. How may I help you?” It’s a few minutes before lunch at Estill Medical Clinic, in Irvine. The practice is owned...