Story by Jeanie Edgmon AesthetiCare brings its award-winning expertise south, opening its fourth location in Overland Park. Imagine walking into a medspa where the team has spent months training under world-class experts, supported by some of the most advanced technology in the industry, in the world! That is not a fantasy destination in Beverly Hills or Manhattan; it is a ...

Article by Ann E. Butenas MidAmerica Rehabilitation Hospital’s state-of-the-art Ekso exoskeleton is rewriting the recovery story for patients with stroke, spinal cord injury, and brain injury. Imagine being told you may never walk again, and then, weeks later, feeling the floor beneath your feet, one powered step at a time. That is happening every day at MidAmerica Rehabilitation Hospital in ...

Story by Ann E. Butenas Celebrating 50 years of integrative medicine, the Riordan Clinic continues to ask deeper questions and help co-learners find more complete answers. When the Riordan Clinic opened its doors in Wichita in 1975, its approach was anything but conventional. Nutritional lab testing, intravenous vitamin C, root-cause diagnostics, and lifestyle medicine weren’t part of mainstream care at ...

Article by Ann E. Butenas If someone you know had a bad experience with knee replacement surgery, you’re not alone in your hesitation. Stories of long hospital stays, painful recoveries, and knees that never quite felt right have followed this procedure for decades, and understandably, those stories linger. But according to Dr. Jeremy Statton of Rockhill Orthopaedic Specialists in Lee’s ...

Article by Ann E. Butenas In honor of National Nurses’ Week, we sat down with Jennifer Kent, RN Case Manager at Ascend Hospice & Palliative Care, to understand what it really means to show up for someone at the end of life. Jennifer Kent’s day begins before most people’s alarms go off. By the time she has reviewed overnight updates ...

Article by Ann E. Butenas When your skin looks healed, but your doctor says otherwise, the reason may be hiding just beneath the surface. The wound has closed. The spot looks clear. Life has moved on. So, when a dermatologist recommends additional treatment after a biopsy, it can feel confusing, perhaps even unnecessary. But skin cancer has a way of ...

Article by Dr. Megan Kraus How a growing shortage of specialists is reshaping care—and collaboration—in Kansas City Across Kansas City, a quiet healthcare gap is growing—one that many patients feel long before they understand it. For individuals living with lupus and other autoimmune diseases, access to a rheumatologist can take months. In a condition where symptoms can change week to ...

Article by The Ehlers Danlos Society Every May, communities across Kansas City and around the world come together to raise awareness of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD), conditions that are often misunderstood, underdiagnosed, and life-altering for those who live with them. This year, EDS and HSD Awareness Month carries even greater meaning. In 2026, The Ehlers-Danlos Society ...

Article by Dave Eckert Hunger, food insecurity, and homelessness are three of the biggest health challenges facing our country right now, and Kansas City is certainly not exempt from any of those challenges. But thanks to the work of many local organizations, progress is being made. Today, I’ll focus on three groups in the KC metro dedicated to making people’s ...

Story by Ann E. Butenas Kansas City’s newest vascular practice brings nationally recognized expertise and minimally invasive alternatives to patients seeking specialized care. When most people think about vascular issues, varicose veins might come to mind. But the specialists at Vascular & Interventional Specialists treat conditions far beyond cosmetic concerns; they perform procedures that can mean the difference between knee ...