The Kentucky Hospital Association supported the House version of what’s dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” but a top executive says Senate changes would devastate health care and create larger economic fallout.

The Kentucky Hospital Association says proposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate that would limit state-directed payments endanger thousands of Kentucky jobs and could force hospitals to close.

Congress is considering major cuts to SNAP food assistance benefits. They could have an outsized impact in Appalachian Kentucky, where more than one in five rely on the benefits.

Spoiler: Drink water and stay in the shade.

For transgender youth in Kentucky, a new Supreme Court ruling ensures they’ll remain unable to get gender-affirming hormone therapy in their home state.

Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” is estimated to kick millions of people off Medicaid, causing concern for health care providers in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, a region especially dependent on the federal program.

The pain reliever acetaminophen is used 25 billion times annually, but there are only hypothesis on the mechanism that relieves pain; IU experiment points to neurotransmitters being affected in a surprising way.

With higher smoking rates, the LGBTQ+ community has a higher risk of related health problems. Health organizations in Kentucky offer help.

Kentucky followed national trends of declining educational scores in 2024 following pandemic-era lows, while seeing some moderate improvements in economic well being, according to recently released KIDS COUNT data.

After years of advocacy, freestanding birth centers will soon be easier to open in Kentucky, as activists say many women go to neighboring Tennessee and Indiana for childbirth.