As debt deepens and auditors arrive, Adair County hospital CEO resigns and is apparently escorted from the building

The CEO of Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia "resigned Monday morning and was apparently escorted out of the hospital," repo...

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Two bills would encourage, protect whistleblowers

Two proposed bills would serve to crack down on fraudulent health care claims and make it easier for employees to blow the whistle on illega...

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Jobs increasing in health services industry

Though Kentucky has been hit hard by the recession, certain industries, including health care, are hiring. State unemployment trends show ed...

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Effect of new health care law on premiums debatable

Neither President Barack Obama nor Republicans who oppose him are entirely accurate about whether or not the new health care law will lower ...

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Health-related proposals target obesity, smoking; none are expected to pass this session

Though several health-related bills have been introduced in the Kentucky General Assembly, including ones that target smoking and obesity, l...

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Skyrocketing prescription drug abuse is subject for examination by Kentucky's two biggest newspapers

The uphill battle against prescription drug abuse across the state was extensively explored in Kentucky's two largest newspapers this we...

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18 percent of Kentucky nursing homes had 10 or more deficiencies in July-Sept.; 42 exceeded state average of six

State inspectors found 20 of Kentucky's nursing homes, 18 percent of the total, had 10 or more deficiencies during the third quarter of ...

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Lobbying on bills to require prescriptions for meds like pseudoephedrine intensifies in Kentucky and West Virginia

The lobbying battle over meds and meth is ramping up in Kentucky and West Virginia, with business interests weighing in against it in Kentuc...

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Company to pay $2 million for doctoring Medicaid documents

The company that administers Medicaid for Jefferson and 15 other counties will pay more than $2 million in damages because it falsified docu...

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Wal-Mart says it will make store-brand food healthier, cut prices for fruits and vegetables to encourage consumption

Wal-Mart has announced plans to drop its prices on fruit and vegetables and offer packaged foods with lower salt, fat and sugar contents. T...

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Bowling Green commission gives final passage to smoking ban

The Bowling Green City Commission gave second reading and final passage last night to a smoking ban that will apply to all indoor public pla...

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Videos aim to educate policymakers about smoke-free laws

With a statewide smoking ban proposed in the legislature, which reconvenes next week, and local ordinances still being proposed and passed, ...

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McConnell says Senate will vote on repeal of health reform law

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-r...

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Bowling Green schools buy local foods, reap rewards from state

Bowling Green Independent Schools are working with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and nearby farms and purveyors to offer locally gr...

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Williams says he supports a statewide smoking ban

State Senate President David Williams expressed firm support for the proposed statewide smoking ban at the Kentucky Press Association 's...

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Poor conditions found at Letcher County personal-care home

State inspectors found pitiable conditions when they visited Golden Years Rest Home, right , in Letcher County in December, the Lexington He...

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Federal grant will help build assisted-living and hospice facility in Maysville

Gov. Steve Beshear presented a $800,000 community development block grant (federal money administered by the states) for the construction of...

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Legislator wants to make hospitals, health care facilities report infections acquired by patients under their care

In the face of strong opposition from Kentucky hospitals, a Democratic legislator has filed a bill that would require all health-care facil...

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Hybrid operating room, with both surgery and imaging, part of UK Chandler Hospital's $800 million expansion

A distinguishing feature of the $800 million expansion to the University of Kentucky 's Chandler Hospital will be a hybrid operating roo...

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As expected, Beshear asks legislature to move $100 million from next year's Medicaid budget to make up this year's shortfall

Gov. Steve Beshear, left , is urging the legislature to pass legislation that would rectify a $100 million shortfall in the 2011 Medicaid bu...

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Kentucky gets an 'F' for how it handles food-borne illnesses

Kentucky is one of 13 states to receive an "F" for the way it handles food-borne illnesses, the Lexington Herald-Leader 's Mar...

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Kentucky one of six states to join Cervical Cancer-Free America

Kentucky is one of six states that has joined the Cervical Cancer-Free America initiative, led by the University of North Carolina at Chape...

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Retail medical clinics are faster and cheaper, but they can cause problems for patient care, doctors say

Medical clinics located in retail establishments such as Walgreens and Walmart are becoming increasingly popular, The Courier-Journal' s...

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Essay contest for grad/undergrad students, topic: 'Obamacare'

KaiserEdu.org is hosting its annual essay contest, with this year's essay topic President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable...

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Faith-based alliances may be exempt from health-insurance mandate; Kentucky court case part of national question

Though the health-refom law requires all Americans to be enrolled in a health-insurance plan by 2014, Christians can be exempt if they pool ...

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Bowling Green commission votes 3-2 for smoking ban

After more than three years of discussion, the Bowling Green City Commission passed the first reading of a smoking ban Tuesday in a 3-2 vote...

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Congressman weighs in on state issue, supporting prescription rule for cold medicines used to make methamphetamine

Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky's 5th District is backing state legislation that would require a prescription for the sale o...

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Vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella doesn't cause autism, so get your children immunized, UK doctor says

A University of Kentucky psychiatrist is encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) now that...

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White House officials blast effort to repeal health-care reform

As House Republicans planned to pass a bill tomorrow that would repeal last year's Affordable Care Act for health care and health insura...

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New program aims to get more physicians practicing in rural Ky.

A new program in Morehead aims to get more physicians practicing in rural areas and improve access to health care. The Rural Physician Leade...

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Health reform will be difficult to implement, as faceoff between insurers and state official showed

Huffington Post contributor Don McNay, right , of Richmond, writes that states will adopt health-care reform "kicking and screaming,...

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Kentucky doctors' offices are the least digitized in the country; increase expected nationwide

Kentucky has the lowest percentage of doctors' offices who have adopted electronic health record systems, says a survey released by the ...

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Private information of Owensboro-area patients found on Web

The private information of thousands of people who visited the Green River District Health Department has been mistakenly available for per...

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Health advocacy organizations reluctant to acknowledge grant money from drug companies, study finds

A study by the American Journal of Public Health shows not-for-profit groups like the American Diabetes Association get grant money from ...

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State legislator wants to mandate drug testing for recipients of Medicaid, food stamps and other entitlements

A Republican legislator wants to make recipients of government entitlement programs, including Medicaid, take random drug tests in order to ...

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Fort Campbell soldier who went AWOL, and says his Kentucky PTSD treatment was inadequate, is set to return to Afghanistan

A Fort Campbell-based soldier who went absent without leave because of alleged post-traumatic stress disorder will return to finish his tour...

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UK scientists discover a clue to treating diseases like 'mad cow'

University of Kentucky scientists may be a step closer to finding a way to treat diseases related to prion proteins, including bovine spong...

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Kentucky gets 'F' for tobacco control, but expansion of cessation programs in Medicaid should raise grade

As a proposed statewide smoking ban continues to be debated, Kentucky and Indiana have received dismal grades from the American Lung Associa...

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General revenues up, cigarette tax revenues down as tax is up

New numbers show revenues to Kentucky's General Fund, which pays for most state services besides roads, increased 5.4 percent since July...

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Number of U.S. adults treated for diabetes more than doubled in a decade; it's a big problem in Kentucky

Diabetes, a bigger problem in Kentucky than in most states, is exploding nationally. The number of U.S. adults treated for the disease more ...

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Adair County Community Voice newspaper, local health department sponsor Community Health Challenge

Residents of Adair County should be getting more fit in the new year, thanks to community-wide competition sponsored by the local health dep...

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Rural teens more likely to abuse prescription meds; Operation UNITE launches 'Accidental Dealer' to guard medicine cabinets

A University of Kentucky study has shown rural teenagers in Kentucky are 26 percent more likely to abuse prescription drugs than those liv...

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Dental tech firm wins $10,000 and free office in Kentucky Highlands' statewide business competition

A Louisville-based company, Inven, will receive $10,000 and free office space for a year to develop dental health technology. Inven won firs...

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FactCheck.org: Health reform does not 'kill jobs'; GOP disagrees

In their report released last week, Republicans in the U.S. House said the new health reform law will be "job-killing," but FactCh...

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Flu is now widespread in Kentucky

Flu activity is now widespread in Kentucky, WKYT-TV reports. "It has just reached the category of widespread," Kentucky Health Co...

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Local ordinances have set the stage for statewide smoking-ban legislation, advocates say; poll shows a clear majority support it

By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Though advocates of anti-smoking laws don't believe a statewide smoking ban will pass in the Genera...

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