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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have been accepting funds from some members of the Sackler family, including those involved with Purdue Pharma, even as the nation's drug crisis has mounted.

New York Times: Even as the drug crisis mounted, they accepted funds from Sackler family.

So far, there have been 292 assaults at the University of Kansas Health System for the 2023 fiscal year. Advocates are pushing to increase penalties for attacks against health-care workers, but legislation remains in limbo.

Even as the nation’s drug crisis mounted, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine continued to accept funds from some members of the Sackler family, including those involved with Purdue Pharma.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chris Buesing was walking through the hallway of an orthopedic clinic at Stormont Vail Health in Topeka, Kansas, where he worked when a man came up

David John Waxse passed away in the early hours of March 4th, 2023 after battling Lewy Body Disease with Parkinsonisms. He was 77 years old.  David, or Dave as he was known to friends, ...

Cancer disproportionately affects Black people, and while the Galleri test can certainly help, it has a steep price not covered by insurance.

New treatments aim for a gene variant causing the illness in people of sub-Saharan African descent. Some experts worry that focus will neglect other factors.

Certain individual freedoms are fundamental rights in America, but those rights are not limitless. Ethicists say society has an obligation not to do harm to others.