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Missouri lawmakers look to boost mental health services (AUDIO)
The Missouri House Subcommittee on Mental Health Policy Research is reviewing practices in an...
Medicare cutting payments to 62 Missouri hospitals for various reasons
Medicare is cutting payments to 62 Missouri hospitals for having high rates of patient...
New Roy Blunt health research center open for business, NIH director “grateful” for Blunt’s influence
In Columbia, a new building is named for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, a tribute to the attention and...
Medicare enrollment plan period opens Friday for Missourians
The Medicare Open Enrollment period opens Friday, October 15th, and closes December 7th. The...
(AUDIO) Missouri school meals are currently free but finding enough food to feed kids is another story
Government leaders are exploring ways to incentivize food distributors to prioritize K-12 schools...
(AUDIO) How are Missouri’s school counselors holding up during the pandemic?
The first line of mental health defense in Missouri’s K-12 schools is navigating added challenges...
(AUDIO) Missouri joins rest of nation in adopting drug monitoring program law
Missouri will no longer be the only state in the nation without a prescription drug monitoring...
Missouri nursing homes say federal vaccination mandate could drive staff out the door
The Biden Administration is working to require COVID-19 vaccinations among America’s nursing home...
Missouri education department reminds schools to meet their local health department’s minimum COVID-19 requirements
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has heard of a few K-12 public...
Pandemic contributes to Missouri’s standardized test scores falling
Preliminary statewide standardized test results released today show academic performance fell last...
The Sara Walsh interview: I am not an anti-vaxer (FULL AUDIO)
State Representative Sara Walsh, R-Ashland, decided to resume her campaign for U.S. Congress after...
(AUDIO) The other side of Missouri’s lawsuit attempting to ban K-12 schools from requiring masks
State Attorney General Eric Schmitt is suing Columbia Public Schools and any Missouri K-12 public...
Once days away from being euthanized, Missouri dog competes for national “Hero Dog Award”
A Missouri dog has won American Humane’s “Service Dog of the Year”. Sobee, from central Missouri’s...
(AUDIO) Missouri school nurses take on another year with coronavirus around
Missouri school nurses are heading into a second academic year of trying to stop the coronavirus...
(AUDIO) Washington University doctor discusses COVID-19 in kids, vaccine-hesitant Missourians
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. This...
50 student-athletes in rural Missouri receive free sports physicals, from Kansas City-based health foundation (AUDIO)
A foundation affiliated with the company that owns rural hospitals in mid-Missouri's Fulton and...
Mosaic, Chiefs Training Camp host vaccine clinic
In an effort to increase local vaccination rates, Mosaic Life Care is teaming with Missouri...
Gov. Parson spending additional $30 million to help hospitals with staffing and antibody infusion clinics
Governor Mike Parson will spend another $30 million in state funds on contracting additional staff...
Parson: Missouri will follow judge’s order on Medicaid expansion (AUDIO)
Missouri's governor says the state will proceed with voter-approved Medicaid expansion, following...
Missouri lawmaker who has prosthetic leg plans legislation to make health care more accessible to disabled (AUDIO)
A Missouri lawmaker from St. Louis who passed bipartisan limb loss awareness legislation this year...
Parson: COVID testing sites and vaccines will be available during Missouri State Fair
(Program director Charlie Thomas at Missourinet Sedalia affiliate KDRO contributed to this story)...
Missouri legislator scheduled to go on trial soon in two alleged fraud schemes
State Representative Tricia Derges, R-Nixa, is scheduled to go on trial beginning August 16. Don...
America’s National Churchill Museum in Fulton reopens Friday, after being closed for 16 months (AUDIO)
Celebrations are planned all weekend for the reopening of America's National Churchill Museum in...
Easterseals Midwest: funding boost is a major step forward in solving Missouri’s DSP crisis (AUDIO)
A group that provides services to thousands of Missourians with developmental disabilities is...
Missouri Supreme Court: August’s Medicaid expansion ballot measure was constitutional
In a case that has received national attention, the Missouri Supreme Court has issued a unanimous...
(VIDEO) Parson announces COVID-19 vaccination incentive program, new DHSS director
Gov. Mike Parson has announced a COVID-19 vaccination incentive program and a new director of the...
Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia receive millions of dollars in facility upgrades
There have been about $8 million in capital improvements at the sprawling state fairgrounds in...
Congressman: it’s crucial to get tornado-damaged hospital in rural Missouri reopened as soon as possible (AUDIO)
A southeast Missouri congressman says residents in the small town of Dexter are thankful that...
Hatfield expects quick ruling from Missouri Supreme Court on Medicaid expansion
Missouri's Medicaid expansion lawsuit case is now in the hands of the seven-member state Supreme...