by admin | Aug 20, 2010 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
Consumers will soon have ready access to state records disclosing the infection rates of Missouri hospitals. State officials say hospital infection rate records, dating back to 2005, will be posted on the Department of Health’s Web site soon. State Health...
by admin | Apr 16, 2010 | News
Objections are raised, still a bill which would further restrict abortions in Missouri advances in the state senate. Opponent Joan Bray, a Democratic senator from St. Louis, says the year-in-year-out battle to further restrict abortions sends a message to women in the...
by admin | Feb 17, 2010 | News
House budget committee members have been told to cut a little deeper as the committee chairman looks ahead and sees no reason to believe state revenues are turning around any time soon. The state budget submitted by Governor Nixon totals nearly $24 billion, which...
by admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Health / Medicine
A federal recall of H1N1 flu vaccine shouldn’t have much of an impact on Missouri, according to state health officials Vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur has recalled around 800,000 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine for children, because the vaccine was found to lose potency...
by admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Health / Medicine
An organization that gauges how well America’s health care system can respond to a public health disaster says no state meets all ten of its criteria, but Missouri is among the two-thirds of the states able to meet seven of the ten. The Trust for America’s...
