Subject: Medical Treatments and Procedures

• Corey Weibel, 28, Outside the Riot Room

  July 18, 2008

• Corey Weibel, 28, Outside the Riot Room

  July 18, 2008

• Best Lack of TV Hair

  January 27, 2000

• Best TV Hair

  October 19, 2000

• Street Sense

  May 3, 2001

• Larry Moore fights in Vaccine Court

  KMBC anchor Larry Moore and his wife, Ruth, are fighting to recoup some medical expenses in the federal government's "Vaccine Court," Moore wrote today on his KMBC web page. I didn't realize that Ruth Moore was paralyzed after receiving a flu shot three years ago. Viewers always ask how she is doing and I always have trouble answering because life is so different today. Basically, Ruth has learned to cope, to understand that things will never be the same again, and that through extensive physica

  January 9, 2009

• Best Prank That Went Wrong

  October 17, 2002

• Jolie Justus vs. cervical cancer

  Jolie JustusMissouri state Sen. Jolie Justus is taking on HPV. This morning, Justus will introduce Senate Bill 104, which would require public schools to provide information on the HPV vaccine to parents of girls entering the sixth grade and would also pay for immunizing girls whose families cannot afford the vaccine, to the Senate's health committee. Left untreated, HPV can cause cervical cancer.Justus made the announcement on her blog, Fresh Meat. It's the third time Justus has pushed the bill

  February 10, 2009

• Best Crushworthy Chief

  October 9, 2003

• Stomach Upsets

  March 11, 2004

• The man likes his "Call of Duty," I guess

  James Harris looks like he got the piss beat out of him. Just look at him. And the 18-year-old apparently got his comeuppance after allegedly stealing an X-Box and stabbing two people early Sunday morning. Court records allege that the stabbing occurred at a party after a woman accused Harris of stealing the video game system -- later found in the trunk of Harris' car. When Platte City police officers arrived, they found a woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds. She was taken to a hospital and

  February 24, 2009

• Oh, Cheesus ...

  Jesus must be bored if he's taking time to appear in a bucket of ice cream ... or a sink ... or a sonogram ... or (my favorite) a Cheeto. Everything is Terrible put together this video of religious apparitions from 2008. Kudos to Fox 4 for making the cut with a Jesus sighting "in the folds and shadows of the shirt." Count me as an "amazed onlooker."

  March 11, 2009

• Different Drummer

  June 30, 2005

• Marley & Me

  December 25, 2008

• Ghost Town

  September 18, 2008

• Fund the Fight

  February 14, 2008

• Down

  October 11, 2007

• Snip, Snip

  January 25, 2007

• The Brain Surgeons

  July 27, 2006

• Rear Beauty

  November 24, 2005

• Memento Mott-Ly

  April 23, 2009

• The Final Operation

  Loved and loathed, weight-loss doc Timothy Sifers leaves behind a legacy of lawsuits.

  March 31, 2005

• So Sensitive

  A KU grad comes home.

  December 23, 2004

• Doctor's Orders?

  This isn't just female trouble.

  November 18, 2004

• Oral Argument

  An esteemed Overland Park dentist defends his offshore degree.

  June 17, 2004

• The Riverboat Gamblers

  Wednesday, March 31, at the Replay Lounge.

  March 25, 2004

• The Deepest Cut

  Obese patients trusted Dr. Timothy Sifers for the best weight-loss surgery available. It was too good to be true.

  February 26, 2004

• Tito Jackson

  Tuesday, December 23, at the Grand Emporium.

  December 18, 2003

• Joey Who?

  A poster child gets discounted by Wal-Mart's favorite charity.

  April 3, 2003

• The High Cost of Perfection

  Plastic surgeon Eric Swanson's bankruptcy stalls his malpractice lawsuits.

  June 20, 2002

• Poor Diagnosis

  It just doesn’t pay to find a tumor in a poor woman.

  May 31, 2001

• The Naked Truth

  Sculptor Larry Kirkwood thinks every body is beautiful.

  October 12, 2000

• Life & breath situation

  Jim Farris needed an operation so he could breathe. Medicare didn't think it was worth it.

  June 15, 2000

• TMC conference ignites C-section debate

  TMC conference on Caesarean sections sparks protest and debate.

  April 27, 2000

• Charlie Arnot and big agriculture featured in this week's The Pitch

  Mr. ArnotMake sure to pick up a copy of The Pitch this week for the feature story on meat consultant Charlie Arnot. In Peter Rugg's article, Arnot comes off as a Karl Rove for carnivores for his work in, among other places, Arizona:Paul Shapiro, senior director of the Humane Society of the United States, says Arnot was hired as a consultant by the "No on 204" campaign. "It was all the big agribusiness companies putting money into the group called the Campaign for Arizona Farmers and Ranchers. Th

  April 29, 2009

• Good for Everyone

  May 7, 2009

• Well-crafted Kid: The joy’s in the work for Andrew Morgan as he prepares to tour the U.K. with Carl Newman

  May 14, 2009

• Children's Mercy tweeting surgery Tuesday afternoon

  Children's Mercy Hospital will be tweeting a two-hour operation starting around 3 p.m. Tuesday. Here's the details:The surgery will be performed on a 10-year-old international patient who suffered severe burns on his neck at a New Year's Eve fireworks event in his hometown 6 months ago. Plastic surgeon, Virender "Vinny" Singhal, MD, Medical Director of the Cleft Palate/Craniofacial Section and Section Chief of Plastic Surgery, will be performing the surgery to insert tissue expanders into the pa

  July 7, 2009

• Don't skimp on the self-exam, ladies; this runner had a double mastectomy at 23

  The lump in Karla Keller's left breast was so big, it didn't take a physician to find it. She wasn't doing one of those arm-in-the-air, finger-probing self exams, either. "It was so big, I felt it while I was rubbing soap over it in the shower," she says. Karla Keller​She still wasn't prepared for the doctor's diagnosis: Three tumors in her left breast. All aggressive. Each fast-growing. She was just 23 years old. On Sunday, she'll be one of the hundreds of pink-clad survivors, running in

  August 7, 2009

• The Time Traveler's Wife

  August 13, 2009

• Claire McCaskill's health-care campaign contributions

  ​So far, in our August-recess series of reports on local politicians' campaign contributions from the medical industry, we've counted up contributions to Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas and Rep. Sam Graves from Missouri. We couldn't let Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill's week of difficult town hall meetings end without adding up her totals, too.According to Federal Election Commission reports from her first and so-far only Senate campaign, McCaskill had banked $11,906,356 in to

  August 27, 2009

• Haven't those with 'egg allergies' suffered enough?

  ​People with "egg allergies" are shit out of luck on getting the H1N1 vaccine in Johnson County. KCTV 5 reports that 2,300 doses of the H1N1 vaccine has arrived in JoCo, and the top of the list to get a shot are emergency responders and children. But those with egg allergies?"Some are still not eligible, like those with egg allergies," [Shawnee Mission Medical Center spokeswoman Robin] Harrold said. "But the injectible will be available for those at high risk. Pregnant nurses can take the inje

  October 14, 2009