WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it cleared Perrigo's once-a-day Opill to ...
LMH Health’s supplier for blood donations recently reported that the greater Kansas City area it serves continues to experience a chronic blood shortage, but folks in Lawrence will have a pair of opportunities to help in just a few days. LMH Health is hosting mobile drives for the Community ...
Pregnant women who want to deliver their babies with less medical intervention but still want to be in the safety of a hospital setting have an option available at LMH Health — the low-intervention birthing suite. “We recognized a need in the community,” said Lara Rivera, a certified ...
Black women remain more likely to die from pregnancy than any other group in the U.S. But the problem is even worse in Kansas. New research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Mass General Brigham finds Black maternal mortality in Kansas rose sharply between 1999 and 2019 ...
Mat Schwenk was in the middle of a major change in his life — moving to Lawrence — when he started to notice that his breathing wasn’t right. He could take normal breaths, but he struggled to take deep ones. At first, he thought it must be stress, anxiety or lingering COVID symptoms. But ...
A $100 million gift will fund a new state-of-the-art cancer center building at the University of Kansas’ medical center campus in Kansas City, Kansas. University and state leaders on Tuesday afternoon announced that the Sunderland Foundation — a Kansas City-based family organization — ...