By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As lawmakers head back to Frankfort to pass a budget -- and other bills, despite Gov. Andy Beshea...
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Covid-19 update: Louisville officials plead for social distance-HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at htt...
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Sen. McConnell creates Cornavirus Response Portal with guidance on provisions in the federal relief act; warning that covid-19 doesn't just affect older people -HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at http...
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Preliminary estimates of covid-19's effects on health-care system, and lives, show Ky. compares favorably with major border states-HEALTHYLIVE
Pastor and former religion reporter writes: 'Use the brain the good Lord gave you. God is real and so are pandemics.'-HEALTHYLIVE
This column is republished with the permission of the author and the Lexington Herald-Leader, where it originally appeared. An ordained mini...
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Meth returns to Appalachia, in a more deadly form-HEALTHYLIVE
Timothy Williams of The New York Times reports from Louisa: "Home deliveries from the local food bank now require a police escort. A ...
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Covid-19 update-HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at https:...
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Gov. Andy Beshear signs more than 35 bills into law amid the coronavirus pandemic, many of them related to health-HEALTHYLIVE
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Kentucky legislature continues to pass bills despite Gov. Andy Beshear's urging to simply...
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As surge in covid-19 cases begins, Beshear says state is more connected than ever, but warns gatherings will kill Kentuckians-HEALTHYLIVE
Trump declares Ky. a disaster area due to coronavirus -HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at http...
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Massie, long an outlier, is a House pariah after forcing members to gather, against public-health advice, to pass virus relief bill-HEALTHYLIVE
Rep. Thomas Massie spoke Friday. (Associated Press photo) By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Thomas Massie, the congressman from...
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Two more Ky. deaths from covid-19, first day with more than one; Trump invokes Defense Production Act to get more ventilators-HEALTHYLIVE
Ideas by Jason and Brooke Ison and @tizbitz, design by @SinclairArt for KyforKy.com As news develops in Kentucky about the corona...
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Legislature passes bill to support state response to covid-19; includes many suspensions and changes in health-care rules-HEALTHYLIVE
Rep. Patti Minter, D-Bowling Green, on the House floor. At right is Rep. Chris Fugate, R-Chavies. (Melissa Patrick photo) By Meli...
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Most Kentuckians with Alzheimer's are over 65 and have chronic illness, putting them at greater risk of covid-19; tips for caretakers-HEALTHYLIVE
UKNow photo People with Alzheimer's disease are considered at high risk for covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavir...
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Republican senators write legislation that would let GOP attorney general block abortions during Beshear's pandemic emergency-HEALTHYLIVE
Attorney General Daniel Cameron Kentucky Health News Reacting to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's order that apparently lets ...
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Pharmacy board limits dispensing of drugs Trump has promoted as treatments, to save them for patients with lupus, RA, etc.-HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at htt...
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Some conservative talkers, including a leading one heard in Ky., downplayed the covid-19 threat and criticized efforts to blunt it-HEALTHYLIVE
President Trump and Mark Levin in the Oval Office on Oct. 8 (Photo by Leah Millis, Reuters) Several conservative radio talk-show...
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Video and audio spots to help prevent spread of coronavirus are free for all to use; themes are prepare, protect and disinfect-HEALTHYLIVE
Prepare, protect, and disinfect are the themes of new public-service announcements aimed at preventing the spread in Kentucky of covid-19, t...
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Living with covid-19: Here's the story of one New York couple still with it, perhaps 'visitors from the future'-HEALTHYLIVE
What's it like to have a bad case of covid-19, or to care for someone with it? Pretty horrible, Jessica Lustig writes for The New York ...
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Senate leaders and Trump administration agree on $2 trillion package to rescue economy from impact of coronavirus-HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at http...
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As Trump envisions Easter reopening, Beshear clamps down, says country must 'defeat the coronavirus on the very first try'-HEALTHYLIVE
UK HealthCare has launched a new telemedicine program to treat people at home and to slow down the spread of covid-19-HEALTHYLIVE
UK HealthCare photo UK HealthCare has launched a new telemedicine program to make it easier for patients to get medical care wit...
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UK HealthCare and Baptist Health hospitals have stopped allowing visitors, with some exceptions -HEALTHYLIVE
Kentucky's two largest hospital enterprises have implemented no-visitor policies due to the outbreak of covid-19: the University of Ken...
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U.S. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has requested more covid-19 testing kits, personal protective equipment and drive-through testing for Ky.-HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this item will be updated. Official state guidance is at http...
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March 11-15 poll found a third of Americans and almost half of Republicans had taken no precautions against coronavirus; surgeon general says it's going to get bad this week-HEALTHYLIVE
As news develops in Kentucky about the coronavirus and its covid-19 disease, this page will be updated. Official state guidance is at htt...
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