Take 5 for your health

Six Kansas cities have added e-cigarettes to their local smoking bans. (BIGSTOCK)

Health Advocates Will Push To Add E-Cigarettes To Kansas Smoking Ban Kansas’ ban on smoking tobacco products in most public places has been in place since 2010. In those five years, the smoke-free atmosphere of bars, restaurants and other indoor spots has become the norm. Erica Anderson, a health promotion specialist for the Lawrence-Douglas County…

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Take 5 for your health

This batch of young turkeys is among the first birds returned to an avian-flu infected farm in northwest Iowa. (Photo: Amy Mayer | Harvest Public Media)

Officials, Farmers Preparing For Fall Bird Flu Outbreak Amid Ongoing Mystery Farmers and agriculture officials are gearing up for another round of bird flu this fall, an outbreak they fear could be worse than the devastating spring crisis that hit egg layers and turkeys in the Midwest, wiped out entire farms and sent egg prices…

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Welcome to the working week

Using figures from the American Time Use Survey, NPR’s Lam Thuy Vo created this graphic and story What Americans Actually Do all Day Long, In 2 Graphics in 2012. Has much changed for any of us?

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Lawsuit Alleges Medicare Fraud At Lawrence Memorial Hospital

A recently unsealed 'whistleblower' lawsuit alleges Lawrence Memorial Hospital defrauded Medicare and Medicaid. (File photo)

A former emergency room nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital has filed a federal “whistleblower” lawsuit alleging that the hospital falsified patient records to obtain higher Medicare and Medicaid payments. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. on behalf of Megen Duffy alleges that top hospital officials knew about the fraud, which…

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