Mark Twain liked to say that if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it would immediately jump out. However, if you put the frog in cool water and then turned on the heat, the frog would remain in the water until it boils to death. We Kansans — and Americans — are like the frog in Twain’s anecdote.
Content Warning: This column contains discussion of gun violence and gun related homicide and suicide. Medicaid expansion has been a hot topic over the past decade.
Dear Doctors: I read that when you take statins, it raises blood glucose levels to a prediabetes or diabetes level. Does it happen even if your blood glucose is normal? How do statins work? My blood glucose is a bit high, and I’m worried it will go out of the normal range if I start to take them.
Some of our state legislators have been claiming that Kansas schools are failing our students. That is just not true.
Eggs, milk and meat are important to provide the range of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and especially micro-nutrients that are hard to find in plants in the quantity and quality needed by populations in developing countries.
Oh how we boys--folkies of the 1970s--loved to sing the ballad of Jesse James. Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man He robbed the Denver train But that dirty little coward that shot Mr.
Dear Doctors: I am a woman in my 80s and have been in pretty good health. However, I now have ringing in my ears that drives me crazy. I’ve tried drugstore pills and drops and a sound machine as well, but nothing works. I am hoping you can explain this ordeal and offer suggestions for relief.
Hoplophobia is the irrational fear of firearms. I recently learned this while observing political discourse on gun violence in the U.S.
It all started with what appeared to be an interesting social media post someone posting an article titled “20 Best Things To Do In Newton, Ks” to one of those what’s happening groups. (There are a bunch of those, by the way).
In the coming weeks, high school seniors across the country will don caps and gowns and proudly walk across a stage to receive a diploma in the culmination of a 13-year goal that has taken the support of many people along the way in order to achieve it. Seniors, your family, in particular, has been with you every step of the way and I hope you thank them.