Sarah Ladd
ReporterSarah Ladd is a Louisville-based journalist and Kentuckian. She has covered everything from crime to higher education. In 2020, she started reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and has covered health ever since.
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From required expulsions for violent students to safety protocols around organ donation, Kentucky has several new laws. -
A University of Kentucky scientist has found two markers that can be collected through a cheek swab and indicate the presence of schizophrenia. -
Rep. Vanessa Grossl was the first Republican lawmaker to speak at a Planned Parenthood rally in Kentucky. At Thursday's event, she advocated for patients to be able to make their own health care decisions and to have access to contraception. -
Fewer Kentuckians have health insurance through kynect after subsidies that helped millions of Americans afford health insurance expired late last year but the decline is not as drastic as advocates had feared. -
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has sued an artificial intelligence company, alleging its chatbot is “dangerous” and “preys upon children’s inability to distinguish between real and artificial ‘friends.’” -
Kentucky’s child advocates are pointing to recent increases in injuries of children in licensed child care centers as more evidence that the workforce is overworked, underpaid and each worker is responsible for too many children. -
Medical providers are taking pain more seriously, but work remains, patients say -
Low-income Kentuckians getting much-needed cash payments through the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (or KTAP) will get less help starting in November. -
Planned Parenthood’s leadership has “no plans” to close its two Kentucky locations following a judge’s ruling that the government can block Medicaid funding to the organization for a year. -
A Kentucky judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make the Cabinet for Health and Family Services implement a 2024 unfunded law — which intended to help kinship care families — and cooperate with a related investigation.
