State and local public health departments across the country are facing an uncertain future. A New York Times report found that many health departments have endured not only resistance and
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The 2021 documentary “Black Men in White Coats” pulls no punches: Black men are dying from preventable medical conditions, in large part because there are not enough Black male physicians.
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Fewer children died in 2019 than during any other year since the state of Kansas began reviewing childhood deaths in 1994. The State Child Death Review Board this month released
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Dr. Garold Minns received a lifetime achievement award from the Wichita Business Journal as part of the newspaper’s annual Health Care Heroes recognitions. Minns, who is dean of the KU
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Because of COVID-19 concerns, MSSC canceled its September membership meeting that was to feature two new leaders in the community: Teresa Miller, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Foundation,
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The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. is once again overwhelming our hospitals, taxing overworked doctors and nurses, and worrying physicians who haven’t yet recovered from the
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Stress, depression and exhaustion from the COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on family medicine physicians in Kansas, a new study found. More than half of family doctors surveyed last year
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The Kansas Health Science Center – Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine is on track to host its first class of DO candidates in 2022. Construction is nearly done on the
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Nearly half of the physicians in the U.S. who died from COVID-19 were international medical graduates (IMGs), a new study found. Published this month on the JAMA Network Open website,
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The Medical Society of Sedgwick County dedicated the city’s newest Keeper statue on April 28, a mosaic ode to the heroic work of the medical community in battling COVID-19 over
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