Morgan Watkins
Health ReporterMorgan is WFPL's health reporter. Email Morgan at mwatkins@lpm.org.
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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.
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Just over half of Kentucky’s 120 counties, including Jefferson, need people to join the state’s Citizen Foster Care Review Boards.
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An appeals court declined to reinstate a block on Kentucky's ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender kids. But that isn't the final word on the issue.
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Louisville Metro Police Officer Nickolas Wilt returned home Friday after more than three months in the hospital. His departure from the Frazier Rehabilitation Institute is a milestone for his long-term recovery.
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The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The same federal judge who temporarily blocked Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy reversed course on Friday.
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Transgender people and their allies celebrated a judge’s decision to temporarily block a state ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy for trans patients under 18 years old. Now the next phase of the lawsuit can begin.
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Senate Bill 150, which bans gender-affirming medical care for patients under 18 years old, was set to take effect Thursday.
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A judge has officially dismissed a major lawsuit that aimed to overturn Kentucky’s trigger law — which outlaws practically all abortions — as well as the state’s ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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Physicians across the country met earlier this month and elected a Kentuckian to a three-year stint as one of the American Medical Association’s leaders.