According to Dr. Hawkinson, some areas of the country are also seeing higher cases of norovirus. Add in whooping cough, walking pneumonia and bird flu, you may find yourself getting sick and unsure of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A group of volunteers stepped up Sunday to support first responders by providing rides to work, ...

Stay with the KSHB 41 News team this Friday as a winter storm warning impacts the Kansas City area. Travel may be difficult or impossible due to snowy/icy roads across the area.

Who will suit up for the Chiefs' regular season finale, and who can expect an extra week of rest? Plus, Andy Reid's update on ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed part of a bill late Thursday that state lawmakers cast as protecting the medical free speech of doctors and other health professionals but that ...

The Missouri Department of Health is reporting that some 9% of all public school kindergarteners did not get the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) nor the Polio vaccinations last school year.

It can take several weeks to bounce back after a bout of COVID-19, but some people develop more persistent problems. The symptoms that last at least three months, sometimes for years, include fatigue, ...

The nearest big city, Denver, is about 250 miles west, and Kansas City is 300 miles to the east ... though he had funded the ...

After a relatively slow start to the respiratory virus season, COVID-19 levels in the United States began ramping up just ahead of the winter holidays.

National case totals for that bacterial infection are climbing, including those here in the Kansas City metro.

However, the CDC reports that no vaccine exists for the disease. Officials with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment ... A case of rabbit fever caused a health scare at a Junction City ...

A new pilot program for teen dads, called Dad Prep Academy, launched in Kansas City with the hopes of expanding across the ...