Money for detection and treatment of cervical and breast cancer has been put into the state budget...
Money To Fight Cervical And Breast Cancer Put Into Budget
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State Audit Slams Cost Overruns In Drug Tax Credit For Seniors
A state audit blames cost overruns in the drug tax credit for senior citizens on a poor estimate...
Lawmakers Urged To Spend Tobacco Money For Its Intended Purpose
As Missouri lawmakers grapple with ideas for spending this state's share of the national tobacco...
Chamber Of Commerce Tackles Spiralling Health Care Premiums
The cost of providing health insurance to employees is one of the biggest burdens for Missouri's...
St. Louis-Area Congressman Has Cancer
St. Louis-area Congressman Todd Akin has prostate cancer. The 53-year-old Republican is scheduled...
Women’s Health Initiative Passes House
A women's health initiative moves to the Senate on the strength of an overwhelming vote in the...
Governor Reestablishes Fund For Caring Communities
Governor Bob Holden has issued an executive order reestablishing the Family Investment Trust,...
Audit Of Medicaid Reimbursements To Nursing Homes Raises Concerns
An audit of Medicaid payments to the state's nursing home industry highlights what Auditor Claire...
Health Officials Taking On Tuberculosis
Health officials in Missouri are gearing up for World TB Day 2001, Saturday, hoping to draw...
Debating How Best To Stop Youth Smoking
Those who work with Missouri's young people insist proper intervention can keep them from picking...
New Man Heading State Insurance Department Focuses On Health Care
The new man in charge of the State Insurance Department thinks it's time some attitudes about...
Missouri Well Women Initiative Well On Its Way To Becoming Law
When the Missouri House returns from its break, next week, it will likely be returning to final...
Nixon wants better nursing homes
A proposed Missouri law could help protect the elderly from abuse in nursing homes. Attorney...
Caskey promotes child eye exams
A legally-blind state senator wants a law passed requiring every child entering public school have...
Women’s health care focus of bill
Legislation forcing insurance companies to loosen restrictions on common women's medical care has...
GOP looks at prescription drugs
House Republicans propose Missouri follow the lead of Vermont and ask permission from the federal...
Calling all dentists! (To rural MO)
Providing more dental care in areas where there are few dentists is part of a package being...
MU hospital cuts hundreds from staff
More jobs are being trimmed at the University of Missouri Columbia health care system. University...
More food inspections in KC
Kansas City's Health Department Director, Rex Archer, is promising improvements in food...
Senate looks at prescription costs
The state legislature is looking at ways of making it easier for seniors to pay for their drug...
Pneumonia another flu season worry
Missouri is in the midst of flu season and health officials are advising that some people getting...
Stylized ads reduce pot smoking
Columbia researchers are crowing about a new drug use study. University of Missouri Communication...
Worst of flu season yet to come
It's flu season but we're not seeing the number of flu cases we saw a year ago at this time. In...
Mass food poisoning strikes KC
A nasty food poisoning outbreak in Kansas City has sickened more than 100 people. It could take...
TB expert: Tuberculosis curable
Nearly 70 students and staff at Jefferson City High School have many months of medical treatment...
Jeff City deals with TB outbreak
67 Jefferson City High School students and staff have tested positive for exposure to...
Wash U stroke research promising
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been working on a...
MU receives cancer funding
A $2 million gift from Washington D.C. for the University of Missouri's Ellis Fischel Cancer...
Immunization effort gets shot in arm
A new effort is underway to make sure all children who receive government assistance are immunized...
Toxic shock death leads to suit
The death of an Independence woman has lead to a multi million dollar lawsuit against the Truman...