Posted: 2:04 PM The government has revamped its strategy for getting people to kick the smoking habit, and the new campaign is about to hit TV and radio air waves and billboards, magazines and newspapers.
Updated: 8:42 AM Local health clinics report a spike in respiratory illnesses, keeping people under the weather this week.
Updated: 10:56 PM El Dorado child was diagnosed with Xeroderma Pigmentosum. It's a rare disease that prevents the body from repairing damage caused by ultraviolet rays.
Posted: 1:48 PM Fifty students and chaperones from a Kansas high school have been treated for food poisoning symptoms at a western Pennsylvania hospital after they stopped on their way home from a band trip to New York when they became ill.
Posted: 11:45 AM A former health insurance executive is raising questions about Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to move the state's Medicaid program to a managed-care system.
Updated: 9:34 AM Flu season has arrived a bit later than expected in Kansas and state officials say the virus is on the rise.
Posted: 9:38 AM Measuring at 8-feet-3 inches, 29-year-old Sultan Kosen of Turkey is listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records at the tallest living man.
Posted: 9:21 PM The changes are designed to cut the state's costs while improving the coordination of medical care.
Updated: 2:34 PM Kansans who want to know how restaurants fare during state food safety inspections can now follow the reports online.
Updated: 4:04 PM Starting Jan. 1, 2014, millions will be able to buy health insurance through new state-based markets called exchanges.
Posted: 8:37 AM The campaign will use ads with words such as "decay" and "gross" plastered across mouths to attract attention and provide facts about the state's poor dental condition.
Posted: 4:00 PM The Center for Disease Control has identified flu activity in the state as widespread, reporting an outbreak in at least half of Kansas.
Posted: 9:42 AM The United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries' decided to drop the program effective March 21.
Posted: 11:23 AM A new poll finds Americans are still cool to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.
Posted: 9:32 AM More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products.
Updated: 6:33 AM Common conditions seen at Via Christi Clinic locations.
Posted: 3:57 PM Virginia's governor has signed into law a bill requiring women to undergo abdominal ultrasound exams before having abortions, weeks after lawmakers dropped contentious language requiring that the exams be medically invasive.
Posted: 2:46 PM Food and Drug Administration officials have issued a warning letter to the makers of the inhalable caffeine product AeroShot, saying they have questions about its safety and concerns about how children and adolescents may use it.
Updated: 2:23 PM The New Jersey attorney general's office has begun a preliminary investigation into a CVS pharmacy's mistaken distribution of pills for the treatment of breast cancer to children instead of the fluoride pills that were prescribed.
Updated: 11:04 AM The ER expansion at Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis opened last week.
Posted: 5:47 PM A Kansas mother of five recovering from losing all four of her limbs is now receiving lots of love from her hometown of Lucas.
Updated: 3:23 PM The new advice aims to help people with advanced heart failure understand that an implanted device may not actually make them feel better.
Updated: 3:16 PM Most kids recover soon after injury but the study helps identify which ones may be most at risk for lingering symptoms.
Posted: 11:37 AM Cost estimates for a key part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year's budget.
Posted: 11:14 AM U.S. health officials say the rate has dropped by half since the 1990s.
