Public Health

The Kansas legislature is considering a bill that would strip powers from local public health officials to contain disease outbreaks.

A federal consumer protection agency walked back comments that gas stoves could be banned.

Kansas is one of 11 states that have not expanded Medicaid eligibility. Will 2023 be the year it passes?

Group A strep has killed at least 24 children in England in the last four months. This has experts debating whether something has caused children to be more vulnerable to infectious diseases this fall, and if so, what?

Facing shortages of critical care beds, medication and frontline staff amid the onslaught of RSV, COVID-19 and the flu, hospitals serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are collaborating to get children with acute conditions the treatment they need.

Former Kansas Health Secretary Lee Norman says politics hindered the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr. Lee Norman was the face of public health through the COVID-19 pandemic. That also made him a target of criticism from Republicans. He also faced internal tension with Gov. Laura Kelly's administration.

As the more contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus fuels new outbreaks in southwest Missouri, public health officials in southeast Kansas redouble their COVID vaccination push.

The City of Amarillo Public Health Department is currently administering COVID-19 vaccines to all individuals identified in the State of Texas Phase 1A…

This is Leslie VonHolten of Chase County, Kansas, with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.One of my favorite characters in Stormy Weather by Paulette…