The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is currently monitoring three people who experienced a “high-risk exposure” to a person who contracted Andes hantavirus. The KDHE announced in a press release Tuesday afternoon it was working with the CDC and a state local health department ...
Health and wellness advice is available in abundance on social media — from trendy to informative to straight-up disinformation — and you're far from alone in seeing it. A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults — and around half of those under 50 — ...
The legal battle over mailing the abortion drug mifepristone is affecting clinics in Kansas, where medication abortions are by far the most common method. The most recent data from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment shows more than 70% of abortions in 2024 were by ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced its first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers, a major policy shift that comes after months of appeals to President Donald Trump from the vaping industry. The decision is ...
Robin Goff had a routine checkup with a doctor at the LMH Health Main Campus. Everything was normal, but she started feeling a bit queasy afterward. When she got off the elevator as she left the appointment, Robin thought she should sit down because she just didn’t feel right. “My ...
Mental health concerns have been a constant focus in public health and day-to-day life in the country in recent years — and it is not going away. Nearly one in five Americans report having or being treated for depression in the first quarter of 2026, according to Gallup polling. The total ...