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Male condoms made of plastic, membranes , or more often , and resin into the vagina to prevent the sperm into the woman's v...

Kentucky ranks 39th in the country in funding programs that prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report ...

Kentucky dropped two spots in the 25th annual America's Health Rankings report this year and finds itself once again as one of the bott...

Community Dental of Kentcky and the  University of Louisville Pediatrics are partnering to provide Kentucky children in the Medicaid progr...

The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council will discuss whether to expand its smoking ban to include electronic cigarettes, possibly as earl...

This is the first in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the ...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell asked Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to "give a timely and fair r...

Diabetes is often called an epidemic, but is not treated as such. Two Lexington health policy experts argue in a new book that this has to c...

Only about half of U.S. adults that the American Diabetes Association recommends to be screened for diabetes are actually being screened, a...

The respiratory virus that has been hospitalizing children in the Midwest has come to Kentucky,  reports Chris Kenning of The Courier-Journ...