Kansas health

State’s uninsured rate for kids climbs from 5.2% in 2022 to 5.6% in ’23, 7% in ’24 and 8.5% in ’25

The state’s Infectious Disease Dashboard is updated on Wednesdays, and cases rose from two last week to five.

Annual analysis points to hundreds of children housed in offices, unlicensed centers

Medical loan closets are growing across Kansas, lending out donated equipment including power chairs, crutches, CPAP machines and more for little or no cost.

Group eager for constitutional amendment declaring life begins at conception

In an executive order, Trump recommended separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination — although there aren’t separate vaccines available — and that all vaccines should be given in separate doctor’s visits.

A $3.7 million grant from the EPA, one of the largest awarded nationwide this year, will be used to remediate 54 vacant lots in the Douglass-Sumner neighborhood in northeast Wyandotte County. Work could begin as early as September.

Every carrier selling health insurance in the two states through the Affordable Care Act marketplace hopes to raise premiums in 2027, according to preliminary rate filings with state insurance regulators. They blame rising healthcare costs.

Johnson County judge Christopher Jayaram ruled the state's abortion restrictions, including mandatory waiting periods, violated Kansans' right to bodily autonomy and "infringe upon a woman's fundamental rights." The controversial case was made even more so by the timing of the decision.

At least 460 people in Kansas have become ill this summer due to an outbreak of the cyclospora parasite.