Andy Marso

Elizabeth Kough of Kearney says she got pregnant naturally after having her fallopian tubes removed, an exceedingly rare occurrence. Kough gave birth in March to a healthy baby boy named Benjamin.

‘Miracle baby’: Woman gets pregnant years after having fallopian tubes removed

June 16, 2019 at 4:47 p.m.

Elizabeth Kough had been pregnant before. She knew how it felt. She just couldn't believe it had happened this time. Kough was at her house in Kearney last year when...

Nirmal Veeramachaneni, a thoracic surgeon at the University of Kansas Hospital, goes over Bettye Givens' lung scans. Givens, from south Kansas City, had a low-dose CT scan that detected her lung cancer at its earliest stage and was successfully treated. Other smokers don't have access to the test because not all doctors know about it and Medicare only covers it for health centers that meet stringent requirements.

There’s a life-saving lung scan for smokers. So why are so few of them getting it?

June 2, 2018 at 11:42 a.m.

Bettye Givens didn't know that low-dose CT scans can catch lung cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages. She didn't know that they can also throw up false positives that...

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