Category: FEATURED
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Tick season nears. 10% of ticks carry debilitating diseases; quick action can prevent them. And UK wants you to send in your ticks!
Lucie Conchou works in UK entomologist Zainulabeuddin Syed’s lab. (Photo by Matt Barton) —– Kentucky Health News Ticks are a threat in Kentucky year-round, but especially in the summer months. The...
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Albert B. Chandler Hospital at UK opened 60 years ago today
The latest Chandler Hospital is on Limestone Street. —– By Kristi Willett University of Kentucky Sixty years ago today, the Albert B. Chandler Hospital at the University of Kentucky opened its doors...
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Latest CDC map shows all of Kentucky has low level of Covid-19
CDC map shows all of Kentucky in green, for low levels of Covid-19 transmission. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Every county in Kentucky has a low level of...
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Appalachian Food for Health Diabetes Prevention virtual event is Tuesday, April 26; it’s free, but registration is required
The fourth Appalachian Food for Health Diabetes Prevention event will take place Tuesday, April 26 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET. The virtual event will focus on food and...
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Beshear says he is looking at ways to bring medical marijuana to Ky. by executive action, while seeking public’s opinion on topic
Business Insider map provided by Beshear’s office, adapted by Ky. Health News —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky failed again...
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Judge blocks state’s new anti-abortion law, pending study of it
U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings —– Kentucky Health News A federal judge has blocked Kentucky’s broad, new anti-abortion law, saying it has so many restrictions that she needs time to...
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Free academy at Pikeville June 12-25 will introduce rising high-school seniors and juniors in Appalachian Kentucky to nursing
The regional development group Shaping our Appalachian Region and the state Department for Public Health’s Office of Health Equity are hosting the first Appalachian Nursing Academy June 12-25 at the University of Pikeville for rising juniors and...
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Kentucky highway fatalities rose again in 2021, by 3%; once more, most of those killed were not wearing their seat belt
Ky. Health News graph from state data shows fatalities not using a seat belt, and in which alcohol, speeding or aggressive driving, and distracted driving were involved, and the total...
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Kentucky gets $4.19 million to expand AmeriCorps work in public health, with the hope it will funnel more people into such work
Kentucky has received nearly $4.2 million to expand the public-health role of the AmeriCorps program in the state. The grant comes from the American Rescue Plan Act, last year’s pandemic relief...
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Coronavirus cases and positive-test rate in Kentucky are rising, but deaths and hospital numbers are declining more
Kentucky Health News chart from state data —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Daily cases and the share of Kentuckians testing positive for the coronavirus are rising again, apparently...