Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide and a major cause of disability among older people, according to the World Health Organization. A Republican state lawmaker wants to help Missourians dealing with the cognitive disease by creating a dementia...
Missouri lawmakers and health professionals are wrestling with Missouri’s substance abuse problem. Doug Burgess, an addiction psychiatry professor at UMKC, tells a legislative task force that one of the big challenges health professionals are dealing with is substance...
A salmonella outbreak across parts of the United States has been traced to pet turtles. Salmonella cases in eleven states are linked to turtles, including one case in Missouri. There have been no deaths so far, but 26 people have fallen ill and nine hospitalized....
The J. M. Smucker Company says the Jif peanut butter products recall is due to an outbreak of salmonella linked to a manufacturing facility in Kentucky. The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the outbreak that so far spans 12...
U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, R-Mo, is calling on the nation’s education secretary to provide a detailed plan on how the Biden Administration is using federal money to help keep schools open. In a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Blunt...
