by admin | Jun 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
Local health agencies are splitting about $1.6-Million to prepare for the inevitable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given Missouri’s State Health Department about $1.9-Million – most of which is going to local health departments to...
by admin | Jun 2, 2006 | Health / Medicine
Missouri’s hospitals are moving quickly to ban tobacco, not just in the building, but anywhere on hospital property. Some patients are so addicted, they drag their I-V bottles, tubes, and cart out to the parking lot of their hospital so they can get a nicotine...
by admin | May 31, 2006 | Politics / Govt
The State Health Department has a new tool to help fight diabetes. Jo Anderson, Coordinator of the Department’s Missouri Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, says the Diabetes Profile for Missouri Residents allows individuals and institutions to look at...
by admin | May 4, 2006 | Health / Medicine
Health officials in Missouri are welcoming the agreement by the nation’s largest soft drink makers to stop selling their sugar-filled products in the nation’s public schools. It’s a gradual phase-out of Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, and the like over the next...
by admin | Apr 24, 2006 | Health / Medicine
More vaccine is headed to the Midwest to deal with the worst outbreak of mumps in years. Nanci Gonder with the State Health Department says the bulk of the MMR – measles-mumps-rubella – vaccine, probably won’t find its way to Missouri because we...
