Natural disasters, amplified by climate change, reveal and amplify social inequalities, leaving the poorest and most valuable communities to suffer the most. Here’s how the Kansas City metro is prepar ...

But the relative size of the outbreak is irrelevant. Kansas numbers continue to grow, and Dr. William Schaffner, infectious ...

Without government funding, research to fight tuberculosis would probably never have happened and countless lives would have ...

Emails show health department officials argued over basic things like office space during a major tuberculosis outbreak in ...

The director of the Wyandotte County Public Health Department is no longer with the agency, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. It comes after turmoil during the handling of the major tuberculosis ...

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Elisha Caldwell had been head of the local health department while an outbreak of TB grew in the Kansas City area, becoming ...

Emails show behind-the-scenes conflict as the Kansas City-area tuberculosis outbreak ... including 60 in Wyandotte County and seven in Johnson County. Caldwell said he would not comment right ...

In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care, Michael A. Bernstein, MD, stressed the need for effective ...

Kansas public health officials have ordered quarantines during the ongoing tuberculosis outbreak, but lawmakers are considering repealing that power.

While TB cases have been rising nationally in recent years, public health officials continue to emphasize there is no threat ...