Morgan Watkins
Health ReporterMorgan is WFPL's health reporter. Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org.
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A recent report estimates how abortion bans in states like Kentucky and Missouri affected birth rates during the first half of 2023. It’s an early indicator that the bans aren’t equal in terms of impact.
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The ACLU announced Tuesday that the woman at the center of a new lawsuit against Kentucky’s strictest abortion bans has experienced a change in the condition of her pregnancy.
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A pregnant Kentuckian filed a class-action lawsuit Friday against Kentucky’s trigger and six-week bans on abortion. She says the laws violate her constitutional rights.
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Lecanemab, also known by the brand name Leqembi, is not a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. But research indicates the new medication can significantly slow its progression.
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This summer, transgender minors in Kentucky lost access to gender-affirming hormone therapy. But the ACLU of Kentucky wants the U.S. Supreme Court to change that.
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Kentucky’s Commission on Race and Access to Opportunity spent almost an hour Tuesday hearing testimony on the state’s overdose rates and how people of color are especially hard-hit.
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A new federal ruling ensures gender-affirming hormone therapy will remain inaccessible to transgender minors in Kentucky while a lawsuit over it continues.
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Senate Bill 150 might be best-known for prohibiting gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender kids. But the new law also changed the rules for sex ed in the state’s public schools.
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With seven weeks left before the gubernatorial election, Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron staked out a new position on Kentucky’s abortion ban this week.
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The Kentucky government is behind on its safety inspections for nursing homes — and it has far too few surveyors to deal with that backlog.