Groups like Keeping Communities on Guard and United Organizations Coalition are hosting a series of town hall meetings ...

Kansas has an outbreak of two diseases — measles and tuberculosis — as lawmakers loosen vaccine requirements for children.

Tuberculosis infections are increasingly common in the United States following the pandemic, preliminary data shows.

Most of the public school districts in the Kansas counties experiencing the outbreak have vaccination rates well below the recommended 95% threshold.

The Kansas City Chiefs are heading into another offseason with several key players set to hit free agency. Despite making another Super Bowl appearance, Chiefs general manager Brett Veach and the ...

Staff turnover at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues as the United States faces several public health ...

House Speaker Jon Patterson and the General Assembly need to let our state benefit from this valuable federal program. | ...

People should understand that tuberculosis is not just a disease of the past,” Reider told me. “It is still affecting ...

The African region has seen the steepest decline in global tuberculosis (TB) deaths since 2015, with a 42% reduction in ...

More than 10,300 cases were reported last year, an 8% increase from 2023 and the highest since 2011, according to preliminary ...

Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death around the world, outpaced only by COVID-19 during the first three ...

including a recent one in the Kansas City, Kansas area. The Kansas TB rate jumped 148% last year, according to the new CDC ...