An analysis of two well-controlled studies estimates that the number of preventable hospital-associated deaths are over 200,000 each year, argues…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky’s teen birth rates are dropping faster in its urban counties than in its…
Rep. John Yarmuth of Louisville has been named ranking minority member on the House Budget Committee, a panel that will…
An ongoing report of federal health reform’s effect on Kentucky says hospitals have significantly less charity care and care to…
Though an overwhelming majority of Kentucky adults say they want schools to be tobacco-free, fewer than half of the state’s…
A survey of people in Kentucky and other states suggests that the 2014 expansion of the Medicaid program under federal…
Flossing might help you have better oral health. But there’s no proof of it, despite decades of recommendations by dental…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has the highest overall rate of cancers associated with the human papillomavirus, and…
From Kentucky Health News Needle exchanges may be difficult for some people to accept, but they are better than outbreaks…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan for Medicaid might not be approved by the Centers for…
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Reactions to Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to change Medicaid were predictably…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News If Kentucky could cut its smoking rate to the national average, it would save…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More Kentucky localities are likely to see efforts for smoking bans, as a statewide…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While all 388 Zika virus cases confirmed in the continental U.S., including six in…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News On Feb. 29, Gov. Matt Bevin’s administration launched a new one-stop-shopping website for state…
Rural residents are increasingly being transferred out of big urban hospitals to recuperate in rural hospitals, many of which are…
An overwhelming majority of Kentucky adults, 85 percent, want schools to be tobacco-free, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A House bill to educate the public about how to safely dispose of hypodermic…
All too often Kentuckians don’t get screened for colon cancer because of fear, embarrassment, lack of access and cost concerns,…
Northern Kentucky is the hotbed of heroin addiction in Kentucky, but use of the narcotic appears to be rising elsewhere…
By Melissa Patrick Special to KyForward Kentucky remains in the bottom fourth of a states’ health ranking released Dec. 8,…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Reducing the costs of health care and improving the state’s health are two of…
