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Michigan is now the fifth fattest state in the US.

Michigan is 5th-fattest state in U.S., which bodes ill for health expenses The numbers on Michigan's bathroom scales continue to spin upward -- setting up Michiganders for an explosion of diseases related to obesity and possibly costing the state more than $22 billion in additional health care by 2030, according to a new report.

Nice article on an aspiring rural doctor.

Doctor in training eyes return to rural roots BALDWIN CITY — A Baker University student who grew up in Wamego is the first student from the school to be accepted into The University of Kansas School of Medicine’s Scholars in Rural Health program, designed to identify and encourage undergraduate students from rural Kansas who are interested in b...