Free journalism workshop will be held June 9 in Cincinnati on covering health care and health in rural America

The Association of Health Care Journalists is hosting a free workshop on covering rural health on June 9 in Cincinnati. The keynote speake...

Young, white, lower-income and lesser-educated men have greatest increase in heroin addiction, study finds

Young, white men with lower education and income levels have experienced the greatest increase in heroin use and addiction, a study has fou...

Nurse practitioners ease doctor shortage, but will have to wait to get more authority to prescribe narcotics; opioid epidemic cited

Nurse practitioner Robin Szczapinski talks with her patient,  Harold Brashear Sr., at the Louisville Veterans Affairs Medical Center.  (Co...

House sends Senate bill to limit most potent painkiller prescriptions to three days, target traffickers of fentanyl

The state House has sent to the Senate a bill to put a three-day limit on prescriptions of high-potency painkillers, and increase penalties ...

Legislature moving bills targeting fentanyl sales, shortening length of most opioid prescriptions to three days

The General Assembly is moving bills to increase penalties for the sale of fentanyl and put a three-day limit on prescriptions of other high...

Long-Term Mesothelioma Survival Can Be Improved By Cancer Medicine

The case of a German man World Health Organization has lived over nine years with malignant carcinoma is transportation attention t...