UK's Doug Scutchfield, international leader in public health, accepts Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement

F. Douglas Scutchfield, M.D. In what he called "a coda to my academic career," Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield accepted the University ...

Price transparency in health care is thwarted by providers and others who want to keep deals secret; crowdsourcing may help

Trudy Lieberman People seeking information on costs of health procedures are frustrated by the lack of clarity from medical providers. Thing...

Southern Ky. doctor charged with illegal prescriptions that feds say caused 3 deaths; another will serve a year on similar charges

One Southern Kentucky physician was sentenced this month to a year and a day in prison for illegally prescribing painkillers to five people,...

Somerset doctor convicted of Medicaid fraud; sentenced to five years for falsifying smoking-cessation counseling sessions

Dr. Ezekiel Akande (Photo from Twitter ) A Pulaski County judge sentenced a Somerset doctor on Friday, April 21, to five years in prison for...

Big drug bill heads to governor's desk; has harsher penalties and limits most prescriptions for acute pain to 3 days

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill that would limit most painkiller prescriptions to a three-day supply for acute pain, and chan...

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...

UK plans to develop its third regional medical school in Northern Kentucky; others are to be in Bowling Green and Morehead

The  University of Kentucky College of Medicine plans to develop its third regional medical school in Northern Kentucky, in an effort to in...

Senate medical-review panel bill passes out House with changes after two hours of debate; Senate says OK, sends it to Bevin

This story has been updated to reflect concurrence of the Senate on March 3. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A Senate bill that woul...

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 ...

Longtime Whitesburg doctor, winner of national honor, fears patients will lose Affordable Care Act's preventive care

Dr. Van Breeding ( Lexington Herald-Leader photo) Whitesburg physician Dr. Van Breeding says his patients got "bamboozled" by poli...

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...