August 2022

FAITH NOTES

The Center for Life Experience (CFLE) will participate in the Fall Art Walk from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Aug.

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HPPR’s David Condos wins National Murrow Award for his coverage of western Kansas

David Condos, a reporter for High Plains Public Radio and the Kansas News Service, has won a National Edward R. Murrow Award — one of the most prestigious prizes in broadcast journalism — for his coverage of western Kansas, its ongoing problems with water, its history of racism and how meatpacking transformed the region.

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Low blood platelets call for the help of a hematologist

DEAR DR. ROACH: My brother has low blood platelets and anemia. He will be 73 this year and has had three back surgeries. What causes low blood platelets? Can anything be done to raise platelet count? He drinks alcohol everyday -- not hard liquor, but canned alcoholic mixed drinks. He is in constant pain from his back. Also, he has osteoporosis. We have told him to stop drinking, but he won’t or can’t. What, if anything, can be done for him?

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