Anti-smoking expert: Cigarettes kill 8,900 Kentuckians a year, so it's time to raise cigarette tax and pass statewide smoking ban

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News "Smoking is the single most preventable cause of death that we know of," Ellen Hahn, direc...

Bevin slows down effort to close Ky.'s only remaining abortion clinic; his efforts have led to the closure of two others

Gov. Matt Bevin has scaled back his effort to close Kentucky's only abortion clinic, agreeing to renew its license until a lawsuit chall...

Kentucky's last abortion clinic says Bevin is trying to shut it down, gets restraining order

Without even having a hearing, a federal judge has ordered the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services not to close Kentucky's onl...

Without dissent, General Assembly overrides governor's veto of bill allowing courts to require outpatient mental-health treatment

Mental-health advocates lobbied for "Tim's Law" outside the state Senate chamber on March 29.  (Photo by Melissa Patrick) By M...

Ky. enrollment in Obamacare plans slightly less than last year

About the same number of Kentuckians signed up for subsidized health insurance on the federal health-insurance exchange as bought coverage o...

Beshear, Republicans debate the record of Obamacare in Ky.

Kentucky's roles in implementing and changing federal health-care law were on national display Tuesday night, as former Gov. Steve Beshe...

Bevin takes high profile in governors' debates in Washington about future of Medicaid, which covers 1.3 million Kentuckians

Matt Bevin and other governors spoke outside the White House. As governors debated the future of Medicaid over the weekend in Washington, Ke...