Fewer Kansas child deaths, but room for improvement
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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Community Health
Minns receives lifetime award; other physicians recognized
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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Kansas leaders aim for inclusion, equity, access
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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Doctors implored to step up vaccine education
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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Pandemic takes a toll on physician mental health
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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New DO school poised to open soon
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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Disproportionate number of IMG doctors died from COVID-19
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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New Keeper statue dedicated to medical community
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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COVID exacerbates mental health challenges
The stress of living through the COVID-19 pandemic and the far-reaching economic impacts it has caused has negatively af-fected people’s health and created new barriers for people already suffering from
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Dr. Mitnaul promotes mental health with wellness show
Mental health issues have taken a front-row seat over the past year as families deal with the fallout from COVID-19, community restrictions and other unprecedented changes in their lives stemming
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