Health

Focusing on health and goals in the last 100 days of the year

I hate to break the news, but it’s true. Sept. 22 marks the date when only 100 days remain in 2024. Did you do all the things you set out to do at the beginning of the year? Did you learn to speak Spanish? What about training for that marathon? You may find yourself asking the age-old ...

How a small town in Kansas found itself at the center of abortion’s national moment

PITTSBURG, Kan.— The Rev. Anthony Navaratnam stood before his congregation and urged them to pray for the women from surrounding states who will flock to the new abortion clinic in town that opened in August. "God is giving us an opportunity to be missionaries in Pittsburg, Kansas," he told ...

LMH Health uses PET scans to benefit cardiac patients

Positron emission tomography, or PET, scans have long been used to diagnose cancer and determine how far it has progressed. With the introduction of a PET scanner in July 2024, LMH Health is using this technology to benefit a wider group of patients. “LMH Health is the only hospital in the ...

COVID-19 spike coincides with unexplained tuberculosis infections

Topeka — As the Kansas and Missouri medical communities prepare for respiratory illness season, health officials grapple with an early COVID-19 infection spike and higher-than-normal tuberculosis infections in Wyandotte County. COVID positivity rates have been steadily increasing in Kansas, ...