Heartland Health Monitor

Researchers say the economic status and educational level of residents are two primary factors leading to the wide disparities in health rankings among counties.

The Texas case is consequential for abortion providers in Kansas and Missouri because both states have laws similarly restrictive laws.

Most people in Kansas and nationwide still say their health care costs are reasonable. However, pollsters found that Kansans were much more likely than the nationwide sample to say health care is becoming less affordable since the Affordable Care Act became law.

State funding cuts have forced the non-profit to eliminate a program to improve the health of people with severe and persistent mental illnesses.

A recent analysis by the non-profit Center for Global Policy Solutions shows that gap the has narrowed between white and minority residents who have health insurance. At least it has in many states, but not as much in Kansas.

More people are getting insured, but progress in Kansas is moving more slowly than in the nation as a whole.

The court's split decision means that the state's ban on a specific abortion method cannot be implemented yet.

Proponents of expanding Medicaid in Kansas gathered at a forum in Overland Park to talk about KanCare, the state's privatized version of Medicaid. At the forum, leaders from Indiana talked about that conservative state's experience in expanding the health insurance program for the poor.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says all five people identified with a rare strain of E. coli reported eating at a Chipotle Restaurant.

A newly-released report measures states’ readiness to deal with infectious disease outbreaks. The report concludes that Kansas ranks low when it comes to readiness.