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Study: Social factors keep women from getting mammograms
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says the more health-related social needs a woman has, the less likely she is to get a ...
Kentucky Health News, Author at Winchester Sun
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Health insurers again win lobbying over prior authorization of procedures
A bill to exempt health-care providers who have 90% or more of their claims approved from health-insurance companies’ requirements for prior authorization of certain treatments ...
by Kentucky Health News, Friday, March 29, 2024 1:00 pm
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Website helps Kentuckians find addiction help, Narcan
The state’s FindHelpNowKy.org website, which helps Kentuckians find addiction treatment, now also can help them find places to get naloxone, which reverses opioid overdose. The ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, March 18, 2024 3:20 pm
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Health commissioner warns not enough Kentuckians are vaccinated against measles
In a wide-ranging TV interview, state Health Commissioner Steven Stack warned Kentuckians that not enough of them are vaccinated for measles, which he said is ...
by Kentucky Health News, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:00 pm
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Open enrollment for federally subsidized health insurance ends Jan. 16
Kentuckians can still shop for and enroll in federally subsidized health insurance coverage on the state-based marketplace, Kynect, though Jan. 16 for coverage starting Feb. ...
by Kentucky Health News, Thursday, January 11, 2024 9:37 am
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Ky. gambling problem help-line calls have tripled since sports betting was legalized
Since sports betting became legal in Kentucky on Sept. 7, calls to the state problem-gambling hotline have nearly tripled, one of the state’s few problem-gambling ...
by Kentucky Health News, Tuesday, January 2, 2024 2:29 pm
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Abortion-rights lawsuit needs a new plaintiff, ACLU of Ky. says
Abortion-rights advocates are seeking a new plaintiff for their Kentucky class-action lawsuit because the plaintiff, who was eight weeks pregnant, “learned her embryo no longer ...
by Kentucky Health News, Saturday, December 16, 2023 6:00 am
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Kentucky Hospital Association says its annual survey shows state continues to have an ‘acute shortage’ of health care workers
The Kentucky Hospital Association‘s annual Workforce Survey Report says Kentucky suffers from an “acute shortage” of health care workers, with nearly 13,000 job vacancies in ...
by Kentucky Health News, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 4:47 pm
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State’s weekly respiratory-virus update shows hospitalizations of Kentucky children for RSV are increasing
The state Department for Public Health’s weekly respiratory virus update, released Thursday, Nov. 2, showed that Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity was moderate, ...
by Kentucky Health News, Monday, November 6, 2023 3:30 pm
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One-fourth of Kentuckians say they have been diagnosed with depression
One in four Kentucky adults in a poll taken in 2020 said they had ever been diagnosed with depression, a higher share than in any ...