By Heather Close Published May 13, 2024 FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH By Dr. Zin W. Myint University of Kentucky Kentucky has one of the highest rates of new cancers in...
By Heather Close Published May 13, 2024 FEATURED, YOUR HEALTH By Dr. Joseph Kim University of Kentucky While stomach cancer was in the headlines not long ago with the...
By Amy MaxmenKFF Health News Headlines are flying after the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests have...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News Medicaid enrollment of Kentucky’s children fell 1.6 percent since the continuous-coverage protections of the pandemic were lifted last year. That was one of the...
The Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy at the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department for Public Health’s Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Program honored communities, groups and individuals from...
By Catalina JaramilloFactCheck.org It has not been shown that Covid-19 vaccines cause or accelerate cancer. Yet opponents of the vaccines say a new review article “has found that Covid-19...
By Carla K. JohnsonAssociated Press Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A new law that sets minimum staffing requirements for federally funded long-term care facilities will require many of them to hire more nurses and...
The law, sponsored by Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, also prohibits a PBM from reimbursing a pharmacy that it owns at a higher rate than a community pharmacy, or from...
Westerfield, of Fruit Hill in Christian County, announced before the legislative session began that he would not seek re-electin this year. ‘They should always be preserved’Westerfield and his wife,...
