Many non-English speakers will soon be able to read prescription drug instructions in their primary language.

Roughly one in 50 Americans has some degree of paralysis, and five times more people than doctors thought are living with a spinal-cord injury — nearly 1.3 million — says a startling study released Tuesday.

Medical device maker St. Jude Medical has received a warning letter from federal regulators due to problems at a manufacturing plant in Minnesota.

Using new technology, Via Christi-St. Joseph is the first in Wichita to use single incision laparoscopic surgery for outpatient gallbladder removal.

Many non-English speakers will soon be able to read prescription drug instructions in their primary language.

The Mayo Clinic has combined its medical expertise with Microsoft Corp.'s technology in a free Web site launching Tuesday that will let people store personal health and medical information.

A new book due out next week suggests some people are hard-wired to overeat.

A new book due out next week suggests some people are hard-wired to overeat.

Amylin Pharmaceuticals says activist investor Carl Icahn plans to push for a sale of the company to drugmaker Eli Lilly if he can take control of Amylin's board of directors.

Senators get down to work this week on legislation aimed at achieving health care coverage for some 50 million people without it.

Researchers at the University of Kansas hope a recently completed study will help deaf and blind children learn how to communicate.

The Sedgwick County Health Department is providing FREE Tdap immunizations.

Here's what doctors at Wichita Clinic locations are seeing.

An Overland Park company is donating $250,000 worth in unused prescription drugs to medical clinics across Kansas.

The wife of a Massachusetts man whose tissue was donated for the nation's second face transplant says her husband told her before heart transplant surgery that he wanted to donate his organs if he didn't survive the operation.

A re-count has confirmed that an Emporia smoking ban ordinance has passed.

If the uninsured were a political lobbying group, they'd have more members than AARP. The National Mall couldn't hold them if they decided to march on Washington.

What we know for sure about diet and what protects the heart is a relatively short list.

The maker of an experimental treatment for prostate cancer says the vaccine has met a key goal in a late-stage study.

The federal government is waking up to what has become a growing nightmare in many parts of the country — a bedbug outbreak.

Researchers say they've nailed down a list of heart-healthy foods, and it's a pretty short, and possibly familiar, one.

It's been a year since a public outcry over a Kansas doctor linked to 59 overdose deaths focused attention on the state medical board's handling of cases.

A Lawrence hospital is swapping the plastic bottles it now uses for drinking water to a more environmentally friendly alternative.

Add drywall to the list of products from China that may be harmful.

The agency that regulates Kansas physicians says a Wichita doctor with a felony record of child sex crimes has agreed to again surrender his medical license.