In a report for PBS, KET's Renee Shaw looks at the influence of health-care reform on the U.S. Senate race

Kentucky is a state "where both the economy and health care poll as high issues and where the state’s exchange under the health care ...

How contagious is ebola? Not very, experts say

This story was updated Monday, Oct. 13 Several days ago, Thomas Eric Duncan died from ebola after arriving in Dallas from Liberia. He didn...

Medicare ratings for nursing homes rely heavily on self-reported data; recent inspection data are available elsewhere

Next time you look at Medicare's ratings for nursing homes, be aware that most of the information used to make the ranking is based on s...

KET will look Monday night at why lack of sleep is bad for your health, and offer advice on improving sleep quality

We live in a country where a third of adults report that they get less than six hours of sleep a night, which doesn't seem like a big de...

Hopkinsville paper gives detailed description of federally mandated changes in Christian County school lunches

Five years ago Christian County Public Schools served a dessert with every meal, white rolls, and vegetables with plenty of salt, Margarita...

Paducah Baptist and Ashland hospitals 'above average' in Consumer Reports' ratings of hospitals for heart surgery

Baptist Health Paducah (formerly Western Baptist Hospital) By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Consumer Reports  has reported ratings of ...