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KU researchers are partnering with a Lawrence gym to advance functional fitness, helping people with mobility limitations in their day-to-day lives.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
For a team of researchers at KU, fungal doomsday looks less like parasitic mushrooms transforming people into zombies, and more like the loss of a fungi collection that serves as a major global resource for sustainability and restoration.
Triple negative breast cancer is aggressive and hard to treat. It also disproportionately affects Black women. A KU medical researcher is working to find out why and expand treatment options.
Tobacco companies risked the nation’s health by investing in food companies and deploying tactics to deepen consumer appetite for exceptionally palatable foods packed with addictive sugar, sodium and fat, KU researchers said in a new study.
KU researchers report that every 5% increase in enrollment in the federal nutrition assistance program for low-income families could reduce the number of children a state placed in foster care or protective services by 7.6% to 14.3%.
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Researchers at Kansas State University said hemp could be a natural way to decrease stress-related respiratory infections and other ailments when cattle are being transported or weaned off their mothers.
Research by a University of Kansas linguist and University of Missouri-Kansas City physicians pointed to the potential medical harm of ambiguous communication in operating rooms that also complicated the training of surgeons.
