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Abigail Censky, Kansas News Service photo by: David Condos/Kansas News Service Barton County Health Director Karen Winkelman is pictured recently at a drive-thru vaccine clinic in Great Bend. Even as Kansas remains far from reaching the coveted public health standard of herd immunity against COVID-19 — essentially starving off the virus because it runs out of vulnerable bodies — more than 60 counties just turned down their weekly allotment of vaccine doses. Not long ago, local health officials struggled to get enough doses for people clamoring for protection in a pandemic. Now they’re s...

Mar 11, 2021, 17:51 PM IST Every year the second Thursday of March is celebrated as ‘World Kidney Day’ across the world. A health awareness campaign is jointly initiated by the International Society of Nephrology and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations on this day.  The first World Kidney Day was observed in 2006 with 66 countries participating and now the number has gone up to 88. It is aimed at raising awareness about the importance of kidneys and kidney-related diseases hence reducing the frequency and impact of such ailments worldwide.  Each year a theme is deci...