KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A $6.4 million federal grant awarded to the Kansas City, Missouri, Health Department in December is making a difference in the city's lead-contaminated homes. "If we didn't have our ...

The FDA is only recommending the new shot to people who are 65 or older or have a complicating health condition. Many doctors ...

The COVID-19 pandemic paused many HIV prevention efforts, which helped fuel last year's rise in new infections. President Donald Trump's federal funding cuts threaten to further hamper those efforts.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, leaders said Friday they’ve joined a federal lawsuit that alleges public health program cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services are “unlawful.” At ...

Dozens of large and small flies circled the Olathe Brazilian bakery and some landed on breads and buns. The inspector found ...

Kansas City, Missouri, has not recorded a measles case since 2019 but that could soon change, as southwest Kansas is experiencing a measles outbreak this year. Officials say religious exemptions to ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said it should be noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first began monitoring and reporting cases in 1950. An ongoing tuberculosis ...

A U.S. District Court judge granted an injunction on Tuesday temporarily blocking federal officials from cutting public health funding for Kansas City — a win in the city’s ongoing legal battle ...

The manager said that instead of giving its residents a quick but temporary fix, they’re opting to totally replace and ...

WE COULD SEE. THAT’S STILL AHEAD. A BIG STEP FORWARD TO REDUCE CRIME AND TREAT PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN KANSAS CITY. THE CITY AND STATE ARE OPENING A NEW FACILITY TO REDUCE THE BACKLOG IN ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has become the largest documented TB outbreak in the United States since monitoring began in the 1950s, according to the state ...