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The Louisville community has reached a milestone in its 55,000 Degrees initiative as businesses, individuals and groups have pledged to help add 10,000 higher-education degrees.

Whether you want to chalk it up to cost pressures or a quick evolution of technology, the field of telemedicine - wherein doctors connect with far-away patients via cameras, sensors, robots or other gadgetry - is being increasingly embraced by health care officials.

Westlake Regional Hospital's Neal Gold, the Board of Trustees liason providing CEO functions for the hospital, reports that the organization operated in the black in April, 2013.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a report showing the disparity in charges by hospitals and health care systems nationwide.

While hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat in March, Chris Hodges took Tylenol for an odd pain concentrated in a quarter-sized spot in his head.