Don't Hide Behind Your Glasses

Don't Hide Behind Your Glasses   While we can appreciate the precious gift that our eyeglasses bring us - sight is probably one of the...

All You Need to Know About Lasik

All You Need to Know About Lasik   LASIK is becoming a popular alternative of traditional eye treatments like spectacles or contact lense...

State suspends July 1 order that required Medicaid patients in managed care to make co-payments for treatment

Kentucky Medicaid officials have suspended collection of co-payments by patients in managed care, a change they had ordered at the start of ...

Washington Post says unnamed 'insiders' think McConnell is playing politics with opioid bill; his spokesman says he is not

Mitch McConnell and other leaders of the Senate's Republican majority (Associated Press photo by Jacquelyn Martin) Unnamed "industr...

As feds crack down on clinics accused of being pill mills, patients are left without their painkillers, and sometimes nowhere to turn

Courier Journal photo by Beth Warren Thousands of patients with chronic pain in the Louisville area have been displaced by local, state and ...

One-year project aims to help 10 Ky. critical-access hospitals deal with substance-abuse issues and treatment access

A one-year project aims to help 10 rural Kentucky hospitals address substance abuse, with one community outreach event educating health-care...

Health and Human Services Secretary Azar says he learned from lawsuit and ruling on Ky. Medicaid plan, will keep pushing for it

HHS Secretary Azar at White House (Photo by Andrew Harrer, Bloomberg) Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the T...

Study finds young people are now more likely to start smoking after they turn 18, not before; calls for more prevention efforts

Huffington Post photo The celebration in recent years about lower smoking rates among teenagers could end up being all for naught, as a new...

NE Area Health Education Center wins national award for getting Appalachian students into med school; program going statewide

The award was one of three in the nation. The Northeast Kentucky Area Health Education Center at Morehead won the Center of Excellence Awar...

Beshear and other Democratic AGs sue to block rule allowing 'association health plans' pushed by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul

Kentucky's Andy Beshear is one of 12 Democratic attorneys general  suing  the federal government over its new rules allowing "assoc...

Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky rose 11.5% in 2017; highest rates in Estill, Kenton, Campbell, Boyd, Mason, Jessamine

Chart by Chris Ware, Lexington Herald-Leader By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky saw an 11.5 percent increase in drug-overdose ...

Seven counties in Southern Kentucky stand out as 'Bright Spots' in study, pointing the way to healthier communities

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Nine counties in Appalachian Kentucky have been recognized as "bright spots" when it comes...

Poll shows opinions in five Ky. regions on substance use and other issues; people say they're getting fewer pain pills

The 2017 Kentucky Health Issues Poll found that significantly fewer Kentucky adults are getting prescriptions for pain medication; that they...

Wisconsin health executive to become chief operating officer of Baptist Health, Kentucky's largest hospital group

Baptist Health , which got a new CEO in January, is getting a chief operating officer, a new position for Kentucky's largest hospital c...

Catholic hospital in Paducah gets a new name: Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

Hospital is at 1530 Lone Oak Rd. (US 45) Paducah's Lourdes Hospital, which has long been part of Mercy Health System of Ohio and Kentuc...

State's hepatitis A outbreak is worst in nation, but seems to be fading in Louisville, which feds say is 'gold standard' for response

Kentucky’s hepatitis A outbreak is now the biggest outbreak in the United States. As of July 7, the outbreak had struck 65 of Kentucky's...

Communication problems may linger for alcoholics even after they give up drinking, study suggests

A survey that measured emotional communication among alcoholics found that long after they give up drinking, they still struggle to control ...

State restores dental, vision and non-emergency transportation benefits for 460,000 people covered by 2014 Medicaid expansion

Susan Wells of Louisville, who lost her dental benefits during a series of extractions of decayed teeth, got them out at Shawnee Christian H...

Feds to reopen Medicaid plan for public comment; state officials say they haven't decided on appeal of judge's ruling against it

Federal officials say they will hold another round of public comment on the Kentucky Medicaid plan that was blocked by a federal judge and s...

Domestic abuse is about as common in male couples as in heterosexual couples, study in three major cities finds

Pride photo Around half of American men in a three-city survey said they experienced abuse in their same-sex relationships -- about the same...

Sunlight is antidote to obsessive-compulsive disorder

Do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder? New research may direct you to retire in a sunny spot. A study  at Binghamton University in New Y...

Study: Infants are not as susceptible as older children to food allergens, and if exposed early, less likely to develop allergies

Med Shadow image If you're wary of exposing an infant to food that might be allergic, think again. New medical guidelines say that infan...