Alternatives to opioids for pain management; resistant starches
Q: I’m having a knee replaced, and my doctor is going to prescribe me opioids to manage the post-op pain. Should I take them? I am afraid of becoming addicted.
March 2022
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Jardiance is a good fit for prediabetic with heart failure
Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 79-year-old woman who was diagnosed with heart failure six years ago. I exercise almost daily and have had low blood pressure all my life (my systolic pressure varies between the high 70s and low 100s). I have a body mass index of 22. I recently started a prediabetic diet because my blood A1C value had climbed to 6.0.
Ask Amy: Online relationship might be ‘romance scam’
Dear Amy: I met a young woman online about eight months ago and have messaged her regularly. We also have video calls because she lives in the Philippines.
Europe is again at war. The example Ike set is more important than ever
There’s a lot of talk these days about leadership, but damned little of the stuff to be found. Never have we needed effective leadership more than now, as we watch Russian tanks rumble into Ukraine, in the biggest military offensive since World War II.
KPI supports teacher merit pay, school boards opposed
A legislative proposal to earmark about $50 million of school funding for teacher merit pay is being opposed by the Kansas Association of School Boards and the KNEA teacher union. Their longstanding objection to rewarding effective teachers isn’t news, but their logic is always entertaining.
Donna F. Dietz
Donna F. Dietz, age 100, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away on February 26, 2022.
Linda Sue Boone
Linda Sue Boone, 77 Hays, passed away on February 24, 2022. .
Norris Cole
Norris Cole, age 70, of Hays, Kansas passed away Friday, February 25, 2022 at Redbud Village Nursing Care in Plainville, Kansas. Norris was born February 14, 1952 in Norton, Kansas to Neale and Shirley (Glass) Cole. He graduated from Hays High in 1970. On February 10, 1971 he married Darlene B. Venneberg in Hays.
Russian forces shell Ukraine’s No. 2 city and menace Kyiv
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ‚Äî Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighborhood, and closed in on the capital, Kyiv, in a 17-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles, as talks aimed at stopping the fighting yielded only an agreement to keep talking.
Kansas agrees new mail ballot restrictions are unconstitutional, will pay legal fees
TOPEKA — A federal court on Friday struck down parts of a new Kansas law that criminalized the distribution of advanced mail ballot applications. The state agreed not to object to arguments raised by nonprofit organizations that said the 2021 law violates the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S.