By Heather Close Published February 12, 2024 DRUGS, FEATURED, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH Kentucky Health News Three more counties have been designated as Recovery Ready Communities for their commitment...
By Liam NiemeyerKentucky Lantern Kentucky water utilities would no longer be required to add or adjust fluoride in tap-water supplies — a state requirement since the mid-20th century aimed...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill aimed at decreasing the state’s high maternal-mortality rate was approved by the House Health Services Committee Thursday and now awaits a vote...
By Melissa PatrickKentucky Health News A bill aimed to ban cost-sharing for preventive cancer screenings in certain types of health-insurance plans passed unanimously out of a House committee and...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While emergency-department visits and hospital admissions related to respiratory illness were again less numerous in the week ended Feb. 4, the state Department for...
By Heather Close Published February 12, 2024 EVENTS, FEATURED, HEALTH BUSINESS, YOUR HEALTH By Al CrossKentucky Health News Responding to a potentially dangerous shortage of blood, Gov. Andy Beshear...
Kentucky Health News Kentucky adults use electronic cigarettes daily at the highest rate in the nation, equaled only by Oklahoma, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control...
Kentucky Health News Crowdfunding started as a way to finance ideas and, as a founder of GoFundMe put it, “life’s important moments” such as honeymoons. But now the site...
Kentucky Health NewsAfter three fentanyl overdoses since June in Crittenden County, the first recorded in the county of 9,000 people, and another death in which fentanyl could have been...
By Heather Close Published February 6, 2024 FEATURED, HEALTH POLICY, YOUR HEALTH By Dr. LaTawnya PleasantUniversity of Kentucky In the journey of parenthood, an essential step toward ensuring the...
