Gov. Laura Kelly, Sen. Bill Clifford and KDHE's chief medical officer ask southwest Kansas residents to get measles ...

A new Kansas law is making it so that health departments across the state can no longer prohibit public gatherings in the event of an infectious disease outbreak.

There were nine active cases in Vanderburgh County as of Thursday, fewer than five of which involve children, according to ...

Humans have been struggling with this horrific lung disease for at least 9,000 years. And now, a new outbreak is plaguing Kansas City.

Under a new law, local health officials will have to prove “probable cause” to make someone quarantine. Orders about public ...

Laura Kelly. On Friday, Ballard and Carlin joined four other House members in support of overrides requiring a two-thirds ...

‘What if I told you #artificial_intelligence is now a super-sleuth in the fight against #tuberculosis, with accuracy levels that could revolutionize healthcare? Mind blown. #TB #AI #healthtech ...

The No. 7 seed Kansas Jayhawks lost to No. 10 seed Arkansas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Despite Kansas entering the year as the preseason No. 1 team with a loaded roster ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Tuesday night, Kansas City residents renewed a quarter-cent public safety sales tax for another two decades. The first question on the City of Kansas City, Missouri ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis within Kansas City in the United States has been ongoing since Jan. 2024 and has highlighted new trends of TB in the United States. According to March 2025 U.S. Centers for ...

More information: Brady Youngquist et al, Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay, Science Translational Medicine (2025). DOI: 10. ...

A confirmed case of tuberculosis at a Joliet high school earlier ... including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC ...