Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Most Kentucky hospitals in national patient-safety ratings got ‘C’ grades again; state is 35th in share of hospitals with ‘A’ ratings
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most of the Kentucky hospitals graded on a nonprofit group’s twice-a-year report card for patient safety again got a C in the latest report....
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Online vision retailer Warby Parker will pay Ky. civil penalty for letting 69 Kentuckians to take its online vision test, illegal in Ky.
Kentucky Health News Warby Parker, an online retailer of prescription glasses, contact lenses and sunglasses, has agreed to pay at least $55,200 to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for allowing 69...
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17 Ky. schools have free online mental health wellness course
More than 1,500 students in 17 Kentucky schools recently gained access to a free digital course on mental wellness, provided by the Medicaid program of Anthem Inc., one of the health...
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Parkinson’s disease: Its symptoms, causes and management
By Dr. Zain Guduru University of Kentucky Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological disorder that affects movement. Named after Dr. James Parkinson, who first described it in 1817, this condition...
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Stomach cancer: How to recognize the signs and reduce your risk
By Dr. Joseph Kim University of Kentucky While stomach cancer was in the headlines not long ago with the sudden death of musician Toby Keith, the diagnosis is relatively rare....
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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 across...
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2% fewer Ky. children were on Medicaid a year after pandemic re-enrollment began; total enrollment, including adults, dropped 9.5%
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky 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...
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Fact Check: Contrary to social-media posts, there is still no evidence that Covid-19 vaccines increase your risk of cancer
By Catalina Jaramillo FactCheck.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...
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Industry says Biden administration’s rule mandating staffing levels for nursing homes is ‘impossible’ for them to meet
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky 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...
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Does Ky. law protect in vitro fertilization? Depends on who’s asked
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern None of the bills to explicitly protect in vitro fertilization in Kentucky got a hearing this legislative session, making them effectively dead on arrival. With...