Anthem Medicaid makes mental health wellness course available to 17 Kentucky schools
This story mentions suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. LOUISVILLE — Anthem Medicaid...
New case of pertussis confirmed in Lexington high school
A case of pertussis, or whooping cough, has been confirmed at Bryan Station High School, marking the school’s second case and the city’s third, since late April. The Lexington-Fayette...
Bird flu is bad for livestock; it’s not a dire threat to most of us – yet
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...
2% fewer Ky. children were on Medicaid a year after pandemic re-enrollment began; total enrollment, including adults, dropped 9.5%
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...
Kentucky Center for Smoke-Free Policy honors communities, groups and individuals who help create smoke-free communities
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...
Kentucky nursing-home industry says Biden staffing mandate ‘impossible’ to meet
The nursing-home industry is pushing back against a new Biden administration rule that sets minimum staffing requirements for federally funded long-term care facilities and will require many of them...
Fact Check: Contrary to social-media posts, there is still no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines increase your risk of cancer
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...
New official recommendation: Women should start every-other-year mammograms at age 40; some groups favor annual scans
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...
Industry says Biden administration’s rule mandating staffing levels for nursing homes is ‘impossible’ for them to meet
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...
More Kentucky children have kept Medicaid coverage compared with other states
Kentucky is among a handful of states that lost only a small percentage of children from its Medicaid program in 2023 even as the number of kids cut from...