Health

Doctors' offices and medical clinics that aren't affiliated with a hospital or other large institution may have difficulty securing COVID-19 shots for their patients.

Local leaders acknowledged that they were under pressure to loosen restrictions because of other jurisdictions' less restrictive orders.

The governor's State of the State speech called for bipartisanship, cooperation in fighting the pandemic and, less realistically, expansion of Medicaid.

With Missouri and Kansas in the initial phases of their vaccine distribution plans, some counties are allowing residents to sign up to be notified when they're eligible.

Residents of Protection, Kansas, came together in the spring of 1957 to make their town the first in the nation to be fully inoculated against polio. Today, like many rural communities, the town is divided over how to fight COVID-19.

Hospitals now feel widespread pressure as their intensive care units fill up with COVID-19 patients.

Employers could use the information to compare what they shell out for health care to what others get billed for the same services at the same hospitals.

A handful of local hospitals has been running out of intensive care unit beds to treat additional patients.

Kansas trails the nation in reported per capita vaccinations for the novel coronavirus and its rollout of the shots has some local public health officials frustrated.

Area medical professionals believe vaccinating Black Kansas Citians will be critical to curbing the pandemic in the area.

College students reflect on how COVID-19 has changed campus life during one of the loneliest semesters ever.

The growing trend of family-funded research concerns some medical ethicists, who say that suggestions to parents that treatments may be imminent can raise thorny ethical issues.