Health
Delay in Kansas breast cancer bill criticized
Some Kansas lawmakers say a political rivalry is holding up a bill designed to improve the diagnosis of breast cancer.
Health officials say rabies cases up 300 percent
Kansas health officials say 13 rabies cases have been confirmed so far this year, a 300 percent increase over the same time period last year.
Brownback says beef flap unwarranted
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says the controversy over what the beef industry calls finely textured lean beef "is unmerited and unwarranted."
Governors to tour plant where 'pink slime' is made
Governors and lieutenant governors from at least four states are planning to tour the lone remaining Beef Products Inc. plant in operation as a sign of support for the company.
Ex-doc dumps abortion files in Kansas recycling bin
More than 1,000 private abortion records from a defunct clinic have been found discarded in a recycling bin outside an elementary school near Kansas City, Kan., prompting a police investigation and outrage from people on both sides of the abortion debate.
Kansas hospitals eligible for Medicaid incentives
Twenty-three Kansas hospitals will share more than $10 million in Medicaid incentive payments for moving toward electronic health records.
Topeka delegation fights KNI admission freeze
A bipartisan group of Shawnee County legislators has managed to strip the House budget of a provision that would have frozen admissions to the Kansas Neurological Institute.
50 from Kansas treated for food poisoning in Pennsylvania
Dozens of Kansas high school students and chaperones who became ill after eating in New York while on a band trip have been treated for food poisoning symptoms at a western Pennsylvania hospital.
Kansas Health Foundation launches dental campaign
The Kansas Heath Foundation is launching a new campaign to draw attention to what it calls a crisis in dental health care in Kansas.
Kansas legislators urge delay in Medicaid changes
A bipartisan group of Kansas legislators wants Gov. Sam Brownback to delay his proposed changes in the state's Medicaid program until 2013.