CHICAGO (AP) — Dozing off to late-night TV or sleeping with other lights on may mix up your metabolism and lead to weight gain and even obesity, provocative but preliminary U.S. research suggests. The National Institutes of Health study published Monday isn't proof, but it bolsters evidence ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there's something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us. Already, the spread of cheap, packaged foods has been linked to rising obesity ...
Earlier this year, LMH Health welcomed a new chaplain, Robin Colerick-Shinkle, to the hospital family. Colerick-Shinkle has been serving churches for the past 12 years and has now joined the Lawrence community to be near her family. Traci Hoopingarner, vice president of clinical care and ...
TOPEKA — Kansas officials want to put the brakes on vaping in public schools as usage soars. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas State Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to launch an anti-vaping campaign. Officials say local school boards need to amend student codes ...
Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday meeting will consider bids for construction managers at risk for two projects: an expansion of the Douglas County Jail, and housing components of the behavioral health campus. Commissioners Michelle Derusseau and Nancy Thellman have long ...
“Help is available.” Monica Kurz told Douglas County commissioners that’s a phrase she uses all the time in her work. “It's a message I want to put out there, and it's a message that needs to be true,” the director of Headquarters’ Kansas Suicide Prevention Resource Center said ...
The Douglas County Behavioral Health Prevention Summit returns on June 25, and it’s grown a bit since its debut last year. The summit features two keynote speakers on topics of the future of cannabis policy and fentanyl, new drugs and prevention, according to its agenda. Then three breakout ...
Last year as Kevin Flanders was preparing for his wife, Miranda, to give birth to the couple’s first child, he remembers thinking often about the unknown coming his way. “I felt like I was pretty much just a blank piece of paper,” said Flanders, who grew up in Lawrence and now lives in ...
Kids in Eudora, Baldwin City and Perry-Lecompton schools will have some extra mental health support next year. Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved an expansion of the WRAP, or Working to Recognize Alternative Possibilities, program, which places master’s-level mental health ...
A group of Lawrence-area agencies wants to lead a project to reduce Douglas County’s rates of suicide deaths and attempts. County commissioners will hear their proposal at their 4 p.m. Wednesday work session. Headquarters Inc., the Lawrence-based suicide prevention lifeline that serves all ...
Three organizations in Douglas County failed state health code inspections in May. Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov. There, you can ...
Three Lawrence high school students will pilot a leadership program this summer at LMH Health that takes aim at big issues of health disparities and inequities. A partnership with the Lawrence school district, the LMH Health Summer Leadership Academy intends to build a workforce that includes ...
Each June is designated as Men’s Health Month in the United States. This month emphasizes how important it is for men to focus on their health, wellness and self-care. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that there is a silent health crisis happening in the United States. A 2014 ...
Check, please — that is, go online to check out what small or not-so-small payments your health care providers have received from pharmaceutical companies, please. A February 2019 article in The Atlantic, “Did Free Pens Cause the Opioid Crisis?” by Ray Fisman and Michael Luca, examines ...
1969. It was a year of peace and love, tumult and change. A year of gritty determination and giant leaps for mankind. In 1969, five leaders came together in support of their community hospital: Dr. Monti Belot and Dr. Ralph Reed were internists; Dr. Phillip Godwin, an anesthesiologist and ...
The golden years — those years after retirement when a person is supposed to be enjoying life — aren’t always so golden. In fact, they can be pretty dark. But they don’t have to stay that way. Megan Poindexter, executive director of the Senior Resource Center for Douglas County, said ...
For the first time, a large experiment suggests that trimming dietary fat and eating more fruits and vegetables may lower a woman's risk of dying of breast cancer. The results are notable because they come from a rigorous test involving 49,000 women over two decades rather than other studies ...
Just as local behavioral health leaders want to build up a crisis intervention center at the future Douglas County Recovery Campus, they want to break down some infrastructure that could stand in their way. Douglas County commissioners heard Wednesday about plans beyond the blueprint for a ...
A message that Douglas County leaders in behavioral health and the criminal justice system shared during a Tuesday event can be boiled down simply: We’re doing well, but we can do more. The Stepping Up community recognition event, held at the Cider Gallery in East Lawrence, was planned ...
County leaders will soon learn more about plans for project management for the Crisis Intervention Center on the Douglas County Recovery Campus. Douglas County commissioners will hear from Bob Tryanski, the county’s director of behavioral health projects, during their 4 p.m. Wednesday work ...