Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just ...

How big is the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas? As of Jan. 24, 67 people are being treated for active TB, most of them in Wyandotte County, Bronaugh said. Another 79 have latent TB. The state’s ...

Kansas faces one of the largest TB outbreaks in US history. TB, an enduring pandemic, thrives in poverty-stricken areas and ...

Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for ...

Reports of TB date back to around 410-400 B.C.E., when the physician Hippocrates termed the disease phthisis, an archaic word that means a progressive “wasting away,” due to the way people with the ...

State health officials in Kansas have issued a warning to healthcare providers this week as measles cases climb across the ...

The measles outbreak has grown to more than 700 cases ... Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the consequences. Site Information Navigation ...

Doctors admitted today they were dealing with a "major outbreak" of tuberculosis centred on a secondary school. The total number of cases jumped from seven yesterday to 24, most of whom are pupils ...

Inspectors with the Food and Drug Administration are tracking a new outbreak of infections from Listeria monocytogenes. So far there are three confirmed patients. The FDA has not reported the ages ...

Expect chilly and cloudy weather today with rain moving north through the morning and snow possible in western Oklahoma, especially in higher elevations. Temperatures will stay in the 30s and 40s ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by strains of bacteria known as mycobacteria. The disease most commonly affects the lungs and can be fatal if not treated. However, most infected ...