Every year in the U.S., tens of thousands of people die from gun-related injuries — including not just homicides and suicides, but also some accidental injuries that are entirely preventable. The most recent data reviewed by the Pew Research Center showed that in 2021, nearly 50,000 ...

In many ways, the coronavirus pandemic’s outsized impact on folks’ daily lives began to wane months ago. So much so, in fact, that data reporting has dropped in frequency — or even ceased entirely — in the case of entities like Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health. The county as of ...

Mark Algren has always had a full plate. He began teaching English in Hong Kong in 1979 and his career took him on a wild ride to places like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates before he landed at the University of Kansas Applied English Center and then finished his career at the ...

If you’ve ever been to a doctor’s office, urgent care or the hospital, chances are that you’ve had at least one interaction with a nurse. Nursing is the nation’s largest health care profession, with the American Nursing Association reporting that there are 4.3 million registered and ...

Obesity is a major and growing problem around the world, but especially in the U.S., where more than 40% of adults and about 20% of children now meet the criteria for what doctors say has become an intractable chronic disease. Rates of the disease have soared in recent decades, spurred by the ...

Arkansas City, Kansas — JoLynn Foster isn’t happy about it, but she’s convinced the only way to save her hometown hospital is to shut part of it down. “There’s no other alternative,” said Foster, a longtime resident of Arkansas City, a town of about 12,000 people south of ...