Tag: health care
If you have symptoms such as fever, cough or shortness of breath and believe you may have had contact or have had contact with someone with a laboratory confirmed case of COVID-19, stay home and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed today to decide a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, but the decision is not likely until after the 2020 election. The court said it would…
(AP) — The proportion of people in families struggling to pay medical bills is down, but the number isn’t dropping like it used to, according to a big government study. In a 2018 national survey,…
Millennials are on track to be in poorer health than the previous generation, and Ohio medical experts warn that the trend could translate into higher health care costs and shorter lives. Millennials worse health is…
Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, bullying and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For over a decade, the school funding battle has dominated any conversation about education in…
Karen Pollitz, the study?s co-author. That complicates research. And patients wonder whether they?ll make it out the hospital door without bumping into an out-of-network assistant surgeon or radiologist. ?It just feels like a minefield, you…
Its official: Americans are dying earlier. Preliminary signals of declining health were neither a false alarm nor a statistical fluke. A reversal of American life expectancy, a downward trend that has now been sustained for…
One year ago this week Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott dropped a bombshell, announcing that after 132 years it would close its doors. Some say the hospitals demise began almost as soon as its new…
An early look at the Republicans in Kansas running for the U.S. Senate underscores how far the party has strayed on some issues. Not all of the GOPs values have changed. The party still opposes…
Ben Smith wanted to take a different path to practicing medicine, one that would keep him in Southeast Kansas and allow him to do the most good for his neighbors. It led him to recently…
