Kansas Health News

The Wichita Eagle Wichita schools began vaccinating students against H1N1 today at four west-side elementary schools. About 200 children got either the nasal mist or injectable vaccine this morning at Peterson Elementary, the district's first H1N1 clinic.

State officials are investigating a Topeka juvenile detention facility after receiving an anonymous letter claiming boys are housed in "inhumane and immoral" conditions in a segregation unit. Someone purporting to be a social worker at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex...

Registered voters in Butler County will be receiving sales tax ballots in the mail beginning next Tuesday. The Butler County Commission is using the mail-in ballot election to ask citizens how they would like to pay for  a federally mandated...

Kansas officials say a 75-year-old man from the Topeka area has died of H1N1, bringing to 19 the state's total deaths related to the illness. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Friday that the man had an underlying...

Vaccine will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis for the following priority groups: Pregnant women; persons who live with or provide regular care for infants less than six months of age; health care and emergency services personnel; those 6...

A lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can move forward, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday. A lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenged patents held by Myriad Genetics...

Wichita Clinic has set up a temporary flu shot station and, beginning Wednesday, will offer seasonal flu shots to anyone and H1N1 flu shots to those in the Sedgwick County Health Department's priority groups. The flu shot station will be...

If you are the gambling type, how would you react if someone tells you that the safest bet YOU can ever take on your health is that heart disease will take away your life - sooner or later? Well, if...