The statistics are sobering. The American Cancer Society reports that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. But breast cancer risk isn’t the same for everyone. While many women are at average risk, some have other factors that place them at a ...
A year after opening its doors, the LMH Health Cancer Center continues to transform cancer care in Lawrence — expanding access, improving the experience and bringing patients more services closer to home. The Cancer Center unveiled its expanded and renovated clinical space in June ...
As America begins to celebrate our 250th anniversary, I’m pleased to have been asked to write about George Washington’s leadership. As president, I found great comfort and inspiration in reading about my predecessors and the qualities they embodied. Abraham Lincoln’s resolve, Harry ...
Most Americans know Abraham Lincoln as a marble giant, the Great Emancipator, the president who saved the union. But it is perhaps more instructive, and more honest, to see him as he was in the decade before he rose to the White House: a Springfield lawyer who’d served just a single term in ...
Day in and day out, heart care touches nearly every corner at LMH Health. As Dr. Christina Salazar puts it, it “touches the entire health system,” from the Emergency Department to the cath lab and at-home services. That reach reflects a sobering reality. Heart disease is the leading cause ...
As a damaging storm powered through Douglas County early Tuesday morning, residents may have heard the blare of tornado sirens amid the thunderclaps, but county officials said it is crucial to have other ways of being notified of severe weather. The warnings came shortly after midnight when ...