Kansas sets new low in birth rate
The birth rate in Kansas dropped in 2022 to its lowest point since recordkeeping began more than a century ago. According to the 2022 Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics
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Community Health
New, planned mental health services discussed
Like most states, Kansas doesn’t have enough mental health resources – both in facilities and providers, a problem exacerbated by growing numbers of residents experiencing mental health crises. But state,
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Meeting will focus on mental health
The percentages of people who reported at least one depressive episode in the previous year is higher in Kansas than the national averages ñ and percentages have been increasing, according
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Child deaths down but homicides up
A new report showed an overall drop in child deaths in Kansas but with two major concerns: Child homicides were at a 23-year high, and drug-related deaths have increased significantly
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MSSC history includes major push against polio
Many diseases have motivated MSSC to community action over the past 120 years, from tuberculosis to smallpox to diphtheria to COVID-19. But no effort was bigger than the one targeting
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Join efforts to prevent physician suicides
One in 10 physicians contemplates suicide in his or her career, and 300-400 U.S. physicians die by suicide each year, according to national estimates. It’s not just a national concern.
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Maternal deaths up in Kansas, nation
Maternal deaths in the U.S. more than doubled during the past two decades, according to a study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Maternal mortality
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Site selected for KUSM/WSU campus
The Wichita City Council voted earlier this month to sell or lease two downtown properties for the site of the new joint health sciences center for University of Kansas School
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Prior-authorization reform gains traction
Though efforts to reduce the burden of prior authorization didn’t advance in the Kansas Legislature this year, there is hope for reform at the federal level. U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall,
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Cancer drug shortage forces doctors to make some tough decisions
A nationwide shortage of more than a dozen chemotherapy drugs, including several preferred ones used to treat gynecological and other cancers, has forced Wichita providers into difficult conversations about how
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