NEW YORK — Florida’s current dengue outbreak is the largest in several decades of any U.S. state. State health officials reported this week that nearly 300 locally acquired cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been tallied so far this year. The vast majority of them were in ...

Sean and Heidi Cripe will never forget the call from their son’s high school saying Davis was being taken to the emergency room. “He chugged an energy drink — like, just trying to be cool,” said Sean Cripe, recounting the day nearly a decade ago. The teen’s heart soon fell out of ...

TOPEKA — Five measles cases reported in Kansas are related to out-of-state travel, health authorities said Thursday. “As of right now, we are not seeing the larger community transmission we saw back in 2025, but we will refrain from venturing a guess as to whether that will change,” ...

The local health department had plenty of tobacco stats for city commissioners on Tuesday night. Stats like of 89 licensed retailers in the city, eight are within 0.5 miles of New York Elementary School alone. But there was one that Vice Mayor Mike Courtney just had to double-check: ...

Holly Dawson expected her first mammogram to be uneventful. At 40, she had no symptoms, no known family history of breast cancer and no reason to expect the screening would find anything concerning. She might even have put it off a year or two if her LMH Health primary care physician, Dr. ...

New caps on federal student loans are intended to limit student debt and pressure higher education to lower costs, but that could cause unintended consequences and ultimately worsen a shortage of physicians in Kansas and nationwide. The limits went into effect earlier this summer as part of ...