By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The second Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force meeting focused on food access, nutrition and the impact of the food and beverage industry…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The focus of July’s “Our Healthy Kentucky Home” initiative is substance use disorder, otherwise known as addiction, and harm reduction. “More than 80,000 people…
Cuts to Medicaid from the insurance companies that are hired to manage them will be “detrimental” to the recovery community, according to Isaiah House, Kentucky’s largest non-profit addiction recovery organization,…
By Dr. Peter Haigh University of Kentucky We have known for decades that smoking tobacco is bad for your health. Quitting smoking is probably the single best change a person…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News News about how the passage of what President Donald Trump calls the “Big, Beautiful Bill” will impact the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid…
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Three Kentucky hospitals have been named among the top 200 hospitals for cancer care in Newsweek‘s third annual ranking of America’s Best Cancer Hospitals. The…
By Deborah Yetter Kentucky Lantern Kentucky’s independent pharmacies, facing ongoing financial pressure, had hoped for relief from a new law meant to give them more clout against prescription drug industry…
By Tracy Roof The Conversation The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025, has several provisions that will shrink the safety net, including the…