Kansas Department of Health and Environment

The Kansas Supreme Court heard a case this week that stems from a Leawood woman who sought a religious exemption from a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for an occupational therapy job.

At least 23 Kansans have tested positive for measles. Health officials urge full vaccination against the disease.

Black Kansans die at higher rates of seven of nine leading causes of death than all other Kansans. Advocates say now is an important time to focus on these disparities.

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — In mid-May, Finney County’s top public health physician sent an email to state health officials repeating worries she’d made clear a…

Testing for the coronavirus in Kansas has so far been done at the state level, but health leaders say that could change in a few weeks.

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — Wearing sweaters, small kids (of the goat variety) went springing over hay-lined pens in the Good Karma Micro-Dairy barn in Russell…

GARDEN CITY — As a nurse, Betsy Rodriquez interviews teenagers who are sexually active and often shockingly ignorant about sex.“So if I sit here and ask a…

Health officials are urging Kansans to get flu vaccines in the wake of high levels of influenza striking most regions of the state.As The Wichita Eagle…

Getting legislative permission to do business: an analysisSometimes innovation in new technologies or new ways of doing business runs into hurdles in the…

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment approved the expansion of Seaboard Farms’ Ladder Creek hog farm according to a recent article from the…