Category: FEATURED
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Beshear says he expects the pandemic will ease by mid-March in Ky.; right now, our infection rate remains fifth among the states
Kentucky Dept. for Public Health graph, adapted by Kentucky Health News; for a larger version, click on it. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday...
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4 Ky. community mental health centers join Medicaid program to blend mental health, behavioral health and medical services
Four community health centers in Kentucky are in a two-year pilot program that lets them provide medical services for Kentuckians on Medicaid, not just behavioral and mental health care. The Demonstration...
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Proposed new CDC guidelines for treating pain would encourage use of non-opioid therapies first, avoid one-size-fits-all approach
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention map, adapted by Ky. Health News, shows opioid-prescribing rates in counties that ranked highest and those surrounded or nearly surrounded by them. —– By Melissa...
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A healthier diet could add years to your life, study says: more than a decade in your 20s, and eight or nine years even at age 60
Graph by University of Bergen researchers, adapted by Kentucky Health News; click on it to enlarge. —– A young adult in the U.S. can add more than a decade to...
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If you have heart disease or have had a stroke, you are at higher risk of having complications from the flu, so get a shot, CDC says
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Even as influenza cases in Kentucky continue to decline, federal health officials remind people with heart disease that they need to get a flu...
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Getting annual flu shots or nasal sprays gives children broad protection against many variants of influenza, study finds
Photo from Washington University in St. Louis —– Children who receive year after year of season-specific influenza vaccines develop antibodies that also provide broader protection against new strains of flu, including...
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Pandemic numbers keep falling, except daily Covid-19 deaths
Ky. Health News graph; case numbers based on initial, unadjusted reports; click image to enlarge. —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The pandemic kept declining in Kentucky Friday, but...
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State’s infection rate still sixth in nation; Beshear blames later Omicron surge and legislature’s removal of his prevention powers
Chart shows how Kentucky’s daily vaccination rate has declined over the last two months. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The metrics used to measure the pandemic in Kentucky...
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Overall, Ky. coronavirus numbers keep falling, but remain high; CDC director says it’s still too early to cut prevention efforts
Graph by Kentucky Health News; click to enlarge. —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Despite encouraging trends in coronavirus case rates, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that...
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Appalachian youth use cameras in UK cancer center’s project to document and think about cancer in rural Kentucky
For 19-year-old Brianna Reyes Fry of Carter County, a butterfly represents a deeper meaning: “A butterfly resembles change. Kentucky needs change. We need a breakthrough.” (University of Kentucky photo by Pete...