Shilpa Gajarawala struggled with hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems and brain fog. But given her history of breast cancer, treating these menopausal symptoms with hormone therapy wasn’t an option. “For two years, I tried to kind of power through,” said the 58-year-old physician ...
TOPEKA — Medicaid spending is increasing in Kansas as enrollment declines, and the same trend appears across the country, according to a series of reports released Thursday. KFF, a health policy research and news nonprofit group, attributed increases in spending on public health insurance ...
LMH Health is proud to welcome Dr. Shelly Kortkamp as our new President and Chief Executive Officer. With a deep commitment to service, community, and innovation, Dr. Kortkamp brings a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective to Lawrence. Drawn to LMH’s mission and spirit Dr. Kortkamp ...
TOPEKA – A tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City, Kansas, area is officially over after no new patients have been diagnosed with the disease since April. The outbreak began in early 2024, ultimately including Wyandotte and Johnson counties, according to a news release from the Kansas ...
There are a lot of leaves outside my window, and I'm guessing your view might be similar. This carpet of dead foliage is often viewed as a nuisance, but it can be an important component in the garden. I'll push a 3-inch layer of them into beds and borders to serve as root-protecting and ...
If you're like most well-intentioned gardeners, you might give a lot of thought to planting the "right" plants to nourish pollinators and other wildlife, with nectar, pollen, seeds and fruit. But have you given much thought to those animals' habitat? In addition to sustenance, beneficial ...
More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy, but yours doesn't have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can be eaten, composted or even fed to animals. Here's how. Cooking with pumpkin waste If you're ...
There may have been a 20-foot-tall skeleton on your next-door neighbor's lawn and zombies in the yard across the street, but the real horrors often lie in unmarked graves in the gardens of those you least suspect — maybe even your own. I'll be the first to admit there have been a few frights ...
If you want a salad that shouts "holiday," then you have landed in a very good spot. First of all, anytime you want to make a salad feel very festive and holiday-ish, you can't go wrong with pomegranate seeds. That's just a fact. Bright ruby little arils, kind of glowing and translucent, with ...
NEW YORK — Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver are what you'd call seafood fanatics. Or blue food evangelists. They want us to eat more things from the water, even first thing in the morning. "Seafood for breakfast is delicious," says Zimmern, a chef, writer and TV host. Seaver, a chef and ...
More than 1 billion pounds of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy, but yours doesn't have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can be eaten, composted or even fed to animals. Here's how. Cooking with pumpkin waste If you're ...
If you've ever wandered into the cheese section with the innocent intent of "just picking up some mozzarella," you know it's not that simple. What was once a single white orb in plastic wrap is now an entire category. Fresh, low-moisture, smoked, buffalo, burrata — mozzarella takes many ...
While Liam Elliott has performed at famous Los Angeles venues like The House of Blues, the first time he took the stage was here at Theatre Lawrence. And now, he’s coming home to celebrate the release of his new single in the city that first got his creativity flowing. After spending a few ...
Friday, Nov. 14 Lawrence Sports Card Expo, 3-7 p.m., DoubleTree by Hilton, 200 McDonald Drive. See social media for details. Continues through the weekend. Cinema a Go Go: “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” (1953) and “It Came from Beneath the Sea” (1955), 7 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 ...
The University of Kansas and Lawrence Arts Center will host a screening of a new documentary about a KU alumnus who helped found a research institution that hopes to make agriculture more sustainable with perennial crops. The partnership will host a free screening of the documentary ...
Tucked away inside a corner of the University of Kansas’s Lippincott Hall is a little-known museum called the Wilcox Classical Museum. How little known is it? “I run into people on campus who have been working for KU for decades and decades who have never heard about it. It’s not ...
Whether you know it for its train or its swimming pool or its basketball court and playground equipment, the park running for two blocks between Kentucky and Tennessee streets has been through a lot. Often referred to as “Train Park” in reference to the No. 1073 locomotive on its grounds, ...
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number. An exception to this norm is “No. 6.” Goldie Piper Daniels, in her 1974 history of the educational buildings in our county, notes that the name “Crutchfield” was found attached to No. 6 on an ...
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was ...
On the east side of the 700 block of Vermont Street, you can see a small bronze plaque on a brick building at about eye level. It tells of a First Methodist Church that once stood there, which was built in 1857 and was used as morgue following Quantrill’s Raid on Aug. 21, 1863. More than ...
