Health

The Ohio Valley has become an expanse where abortions are either outlawed, heavily restricted, or hanging in the balance of local courts.
The number of disease-carrying ticks and their habitats is expanding year by year.
Nationwide, deaths associated with alcohol, drugs and suicide, called "deaths of despair," took the lives of 186,763 Americans in 2020, a 20% increase from 2019.
Parents often perceive sparklers as a safe option for kids, not realizing that they can burn hot enough to melt some metals.
Of Kentucky’s neighboring states, abortion is enshrined in Illinois — where an influx of out-of-state abortion-seekers is expected — and remains legal, but heavily restricted in Indiana, Ohio and Virginia.
Thirteen states, including Kentucky, have so-called trigger laws that ban abortion, set to take effect upon Roe’s reversal.
The plaintiff sued Bayer after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, saying that habitual use of Roundup caused his cancer.
COVID-19 will always be with us, but vaccines, therapies and preventive steps mean we can live with it, experts said.
Gov. Andy Beshear is looking for ways to bring medical marijuana to Kentucky by executive action. Legislators have said he lacks the power to do that.
The approval by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention means that the shots could be available in Kentucky before the end of June.
Clinical trials are studying new versions of vaccines amid pressure for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to decide whether to allow them to be recommended later this year,