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The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City is proud to partner with the KHI News Service to provide weekly health stories about health and policy issues impacting the greater Kansas City region. Because it is committed to objective coverage, HCF exercises no editorial control over the content. The KHI News Service is an editorially independent initiative of the Kansas Health Institute. For story ideas, please contact Mike Shields at mshields@khi.org.

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By Mike Sherry for KHI News Service, May 21, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – It all started a few years ago when four suburban women were together talking about their 40th birthdays. Since then, Project 39 has collected thousands of items for...

By Mike Sherry for KHI News Service, May 16, 2013

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just a few months shy of her third birthday, Sienna Diffenderfer has a lot of help in coping with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and...

By Mike Sherry for KHI News Service, May 13, 2013

DE SOTO – Pharmacist Lori Murdock said she often heard the question even from people who weren’t her customers: How do we get rid of our old drugs...

By Mike Sherry for KHI News Service, May 10, 2013

MERRIAM – With initial assistance from the REACH Healthcare Foundation, more than a dozen safety-net medical providers in Johnson and Wyandotte...