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A bill that would legalize medicinal cannabis in Kansas would limit the types of problems the drug could be prescribed for. It would also guard against seeking out a doctor simply for a quick prescription.

Remote P.E. has forced gym teachers to re-think fitness for their students. But can they help stir-crazy adults?

Remote P.E. has forced gym teachers to re-think fitness for their students. But can they help stir-crazy adults?

A year ago, KCUR aired the "coronavirus diaries" of a Kansas City native teaching English in China. Back then, his account of life in quarantine — including an eerily quiet Super Bowl watch party — seemed unimaginable. Now, the normalcy of his post-COVID life is what's surreal.

A year ago, KCUR aired the "coronavirus diaries" of a Kansas City native teaching English in China. Back then, his account of life in quarantine — including an eerily quiet Super Bowl watch party — seemed unimaginable. Now, the normalcy of his post-COVID life is what's surreal.

According to an AP report, 1 in 8 Americans live in a county whose health department leader has left the job during the pandemic.

Kansas and Missouri are losing public health workers to pandemic burnout, and the Lansing correctional facility is the future site of a career campus providing returning citizens with opportunities before and upon their release.

They expected things to work out fine between the insurance company and the hospitals. Then the bills came.

The COVID-19 outbreak has worsened mental health among a group that already struggled with high rates of depression, anxiety and suicide.

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.