Posted: 9:33 AM Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the state needs to decide soon what health benefits it would offer under federal health care reform.

Posted: 9:20 AM A new report says the U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year -- roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar.

Posted: 4:05 PM A study of former NFL players finds they were unusually prone to dying from degenerative brain disease.

Posted: 3:10 PM The bubonic plague hasn't been confirmed in a human in Colorado since 2006.

Posted: 1:34 PM Children's author Judy Blume says she was diagnosed with breast cancer over the summer but is "feeling stronger every day" after surgery.

Updated: 1:33 PM Former Susan G. Komen for the Cure vice president Karen Handel has written a blistering insider's account of the cancer charity's decision to halt grants to Planned Parenthood and its swift retreat in the face of an intense backlash.

Posted: 9:45 AM Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and other diet groups say they are supporting New York City's proposed crackdown on super-sized, sugary drinks.

Posted: 9:32 AM Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out – and concluded there's little evidence that going organic is much healthier, citing only a few differences involving pesticides and antibiotics.

Posted: 2:23 PM At least six rangers are staffing phones at Yosemite National Park as visitors frightened about a growing outbreak of a deadly mouse-borne virus call seeking answers.

Posted: 9:01 AM College health officials are beginning to look at helping returning students get the one thing they probably miss the most at school -- sleep.

Posted: 3:15 PM Over the past three weeks, two people have died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome after staying in one of the so-called "Signature" cabins.

Posted: 10:39 AM Robin Roberts has said goodbye to ABC's "Good Morning America," but only for a while.

Posted: 9:51 AM The mangoes were sold at various U.S. retailers between July 12 and August 29.

Posted: 8:35 AM The U.S. Census Bureau says more Kansans under the age of 65 are living without health insurance.

Updated: 5:20 PM Common conditions seen at Via Christi Clinic locations

Posted: 4:28 AM Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's administration will sponsor meetings in 12 cities next month on its plans to overhaul the state's Medicaid program.

Posted: 1:21 PM Kansas health officials say nine more patients at Hays Medical Center have tested negative for hepatitis C in cases linked to a traveling hospital technician.

Posted: 1:10 PM A new report says slightly more Kansas youths were covered by public health insurance in 2010 than in 2008.

Posted: 11:58 AM Federal health officials say that West Nile virus cases are up 40 percent since last week and are on pace to rival the record years of 2002 and 2003.

Posted: 10:29 AM Federal health officials are warning that kids with neurologic disorders face a high risk of death if they get the flu.

Posted: 12:47 PM Yosemite officials told 1,700 past visitors on Tuesday they may have been exposed to a rodent-borne disease already blamed for the deaths of two people who stayed at the park.

Updated: 12:14 PM Airing weekdays, the syndicated "Katie" premieres Sept. 10.

Posted: 10:56 AM A federal appeals court says the Obama administration's funding of embryonic stem cell research in hopes of curing deadly diseases can continue, despite complaints the work relies on destroyed human embryos.

Posted: 9:53 AM Eli Lilly's potential Alzheimer's disease treatment failed to slow mental decline in two late-stage studies, but combined data from both trials showed promising results in patients with mild-to-moderate cases of the mind-robbing disease.

Posted: 5:34 PM Health officials said five cases have been confirmed since July 1.