A little red car trudges through dirt roads and dodges potholes before it zooms down the highway. In the car is Isabel Yara and her daughter. Yara spent most of the early morning getting her daughter ready for a doctor’s appointment. But Yara lives in rural southwest Kansas, and seeing the ...
Have you heard of the WDNC? The “We Do Not Care Club” is the brainchild of social media creator Melani Sanders, and it speaks to women navigating the waters of perimenopause and menopause. She said the club is for women tired of carrying the emotional load, being polite about pain and tired ...
Breast cancer, right? You know, there’s not a day that goes by that I am not grateful that I had cancer. Now I appreciate every day in a way that I never did before. LMH Health Foundation Board President Gail Vick shared these words she heard from a friend during her own cancer journey. I ...
When you hear about a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, you might think of scuba divers being treated for decompression sickness, or “the bends.” But these chambers are used for much more. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a treatment that increases the oxygen level in body tissues to promote healing. ...
Extreme heat makes it especially hard for your body to cool down, so you need to be extra careful if you exercise or play sports when it’s baking outside. Your brain tries to keep your body within a degree or two of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius), and it does so in part by ...
Two weeks before Joan Cody died, a Kansas employee urged state regulators to investigate alleged abuse and neglect at her northeast Kansas memory care facility. “I don’t normally reach out unless I believe (state) intervention is necessary, but I must bring a serious situation to your ...