Health
Local efforts aim to curb Medicare costs
Mike Sherry – The Hale Center for Journalism Established five decades ago, the Medicare program has a budget rivalling that of the Pentagon, and congressional budgeters project the roughly $600 billion price tag will double within the next decade. But three Kansas City-area physician partnerships, serving both sides of the state line, are on…
A Community Choice
Part 3: Undocumented and Uninsured – A Health Care Challenge [Editor’s Note: Click this link for an overview of the series and an interview with the author.] Tammy Worth — Special correspondent to The Hale Center for Journalism Kansas City may have the largest number of Hispanics in the metropolitan area, but Olathe has the largest percent…
Rainbow Mental Health Facility to hold town hall meeting
The organizations involved with the revamped Rainbow Mental Health Facility in Kansas City, Kan., are holding a town hall meeting Friday to explain the changes. Officials have scheduled the meeting for 10 a.m. at the Johnson County Mental Center, 6000 Lamar Ave. in Mission, Kan. Last week, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announced that Rainbow will…
Program curtails visits to emergency rooms
After navigating the brightly lit aisles of the Raytown Wal-Mart, Lance Sharples wheeled a grocery cart to the check-out line one night last week. The clerk made quick work of the items – staples like bananas, hotdogs, frozen pizza, and white bread. “You push, man,” Sharples told his companion as they headed for the door….
A Healthy Expense – Who Pays for Care
Part 2: Undocumented and Uninsured — A Health Care Challenge [Editor’s Note: Click this link for an overview of the series and an interview with the author.] Tammy Worth — Special correspondent to The Hale Center for Journalism Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Dale Essmyer has a family practice in downtown Milan, Mo. He says he and other residents…
Senior Center Development Plans Rankle Some Neighbors
Mike Sherry – The Hale Center for Journalism David and Beverly Lewis used to trek occasionally to the neighboring Nazarene church with a collection of balls that had flown into their backyard from the playing field just beyond their privacy fence. It was no big deal, and anyway, Beverly liked watching the younger kids play…
Enrollment Down in Federal Nutrition Program
Mike Sherry – The Hale Center for Journalism For officials in Johnson County, and across the country, it’s plain to see that enrollment is down in a federal nutrition program for low-income pregnant women and their children. Less clear, however, is why. “That seems to be the question that no one has the answer for,”…
Big 5 Report: KC Biotech Start-up Working on Diabetes Cure for Pets
KCPT reporters Todd Feeback and Lindsey Foat visited Kansas City’s Likarda, a 2012 biotech startup hoping to help companion animals suffering from diabetes–using a treatment that started with dogs, then moved to humans, and now, back to dogs. Every day at 6am and 6pm Stephanie Kallas gives her mini-dachshund Daisy a shot of insulin to help…
Future of Human Health May Rest in the Paws of our Animal Brethren
The 2013 Animal Health Research Symposium on August 26, 2013 explored how veterinary and human health researchers may find new cures and treatments through collaboration.
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