Posted: 8:23 AM Procedures are being revised at a public swimming pool in Topeka after a cloud of chlorine sent eight swimmers to hospitals. All were treated and released.

Posted: 1:30 PM A study of bird flu that was once considered too risky to publish has finally been released.

Posted: 1:12 PM The wait is almost over for the Supreme Court's verdict on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Posted: 11:33 AM The state's social services department is asking an independent living center that serves much of southern Kansas to pay $228,184 within a month.

Updated: 5:42 PM Common problems seen at Via Christi Clinic locations

Posted: 3:18 PM Health Ministries Clinic of Newton is one of 219 health centers who will benefit from a grant.

Posted: 2:02 PM The American Medical Association says yearly instruction aimed at preventing obesity should be required for public schoolchildren and teens.

Posted: 2:28 PM Doctors in Miami have successfully removed a spear accidentally shot through a teenager's skull during a spearfishing trip.

Posted: 3:17 PM Though parents have been teaching their children not to argue with adults for generations, new research from the University of Virginia shows that young teenagers who are taught to argue effectively are more likely to resist peer pressure to use drugs or alcohol later in adolescence.

Updated: 3:16 PM Democratic sources tell the Associated Press that the Obama administration plans to move ahead with major parts of the president's health care law if its most controversial provision doesn't survive a looming Supreme Court decision.

Posted: 9:16 AM Federal health regulators say the toxic side effects of an experimental cancer drug from Onyx Pharmaceuticals may outweigh the drug's benefits for patients with a type of blood cancer.

Posted: 8:47 AM British medical experts say faulty French-made breast implants do not pose any long-term health problems to women even if they rupture.

Updated: 2:51 PM Some are already anticipating the Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law as the "decision of the century."

Posted: 1:18 PM The nation's Catholic hospitals are rejecting President Barack Obama's compromise for providing birth control coverage to their women employees.

Posted: 12:51 PM Health officials have confirmed that an Oregon man has the plague after he was bitten while trying to take a dead mouse from a stray cat.

Posted: 8:28 AM State health officials have verified the Girard Medical Center trauma center as a Level IV Trauma Center.

Posted: 1:39 PM A new government study shows far fewer motorcyclists die in states that require helmets.

Posted: 1:27 PM Actor Ben Affleck is joining Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in an effort to fight high child mortality rates across the globe.

Posted: 11:44 AM British Columbia's top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be safe when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police about the dangers of the street drug after a rash of deaths.

Updated: 10:46 AM Health officials say Kansas and other parts of the United States are experiencing a cyclical peak in the number of cases of whooping cough.

Updated: 4:57 PM Common conditions seen at Via Christi Clinic locations

Updated: 10:53 PM The Sedgwick County Health Department's 2012 Data Book showed that 64 percent of adults in the county are either overweight or obese.

Posted: 12:24 PM They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut. If you collected all the bacteria and other microbes you have, they could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds.

Posted: 4:11 PM A Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease is slowly improving and her father says she should be out of intensive care.

Updated: 3:58 PM A new study says women physician-scientists are paid much less than their male counterparts. The salary difference over a career could pay for a college education, a spacious house, or even a retirement nest egg.