Wichita Health News

The Wichita Eagle The Pollution Prevention Institute, which offers source reduction technical assistance to the health care and hospitality industries, is getting $61,882 from the Environmental Protection Agency and others to continue its work...The nonprofit program links engineering and...

Coalition in cooperation with Butler Community College and Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital.  The program, “Methamphetamines and HIV – A Deadly Duo,” will be held from 8:30 to noon on the Butler Community College El Dorado campus in the Kansas...

The Wichita Eagle Newton Medical Center has saved $1.7 million over the past year by implementing ideas submitted by its staff members in a "Show Me the Money" campaign. Val Gleason, vice president for physician services, said health care is...

The Abay Neuroscience Center is renting space in clinic Building 2107. It will staff the center, initially, at least one day every other week, said Earle Brown, administrator of the center. The staff will include a neurosurgeon and his assistant,...

The people are not identified to protect their privacy. -- After being diagnosed with brain cancer and losing her job, a single mother of three is struggling to get by. The brain tumor was removed 16 months ago, but with...

My husband, Hardy Hutchinson, had an aneurysm to the aorta valve. We were told before he went in for surgery that he probably wouldn't make it. He was on life support, his blood pressure had skyrocketed, he had pneumonia in...

The Wichita Eagle The Center for Breast Cancer Survivorship is moving ahead and could be open by the end of the year at Cypress Medical Park, near 29th Street North and Webb Road. The center, in the works for more...

Network of Kansas for safe cribs for families unable to afford them. * $22,500 to Extension Education Foundation for an outdoor play initiative. * $10,425 to Central Plains Area Agency on Aging for physical activity classes. * $10,350 to Cathedral...

The Municipal Court appearance for a former Wichita day-care worker accused of driving seven children while she was drunk has been continued to Dec...Margaret E. (Walker) Self, 49, of Derby was charged Oct. 27 with driving under the influence —...