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For the first time since the pandemic began, Kansas City University medical students returned to a Kenyan clinic to help diagnose and treat patients as part of the school's global health outreach program. Two students share what the experience taught them and how it influenced their medical careers.

The nursing shortage has led to a greater reliance on travel nurses — who come with big price tags — at hospitals around the country. According to leading travel nursing agency Aya Healthcare, there are nearly 1,500 openings for travel nurses in Missouri and 340 in Kansas. That’s causing some hospitals to rethink their nursing staff retention efforts.

Medicine’s Hall of Fame & Museum in Shawnee, Kansas, is closed, and its thousands of items are up for auction.

Earlier this week, the Food and Drug Administration officially declared a nationwide shortage of the prescription drug Adderall.

The price of prescription drugs can prove to be a major medical hurdle for people who are uninsured or underinsured. Pharmacy of Grace is trying to bridge that gap.

The MS Achievement Center, located at the University of Kansas Medical Center, provides weekly therapies and socialization for those with the neurological disease.

Consumers and insurers charged that Mylan, Pfizer and other companies engaged in an illegal scheme to monopolize the EpiPen market by hiking the device’s price from $100 to $600.

Racial disparities in healthcare include the fact that Black women are one and a half times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women and it doesn't stop there.

The standard advice for dealing with the coronavirus still holds true for the new variant.

Medical marijuana offers a means for thousands of Missourians to manage pain and other medical symptoms. But, people interested in those products may have questions about where to even start.

The eventual need for booster shots has been a topic since COVID-19 vaccines became available in December. For some, the opportunity to get one is now here.

Studies show Black women are among the most well educated demographic, and they say they're speaking out, wearing natural hair and wanting the same as their white colleagues, paving the road for the next generation.