by admin | Aug 3, 2009 | Health / Medicine
The Department of Health is using social networking to curb social diseases. " Take Control — Take the Test " is the name of the department’s new Facebook and MySpace pages. Provider Health Educator Ken Palermo says you don’t...
by admin | Jul 27, 2009 | Health / Medicine
Too many elderly Missourians suffer nasty falls and the state’s official senior citizen advocate wants to prevent them. The statistics as related by Lt. Governor Peter Kinder spokesman Gary McElyea are grim. "Falls in Missouri actually cause a number of...
by admin | Jul 12, 2009 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
The death of a southeast Missouri infant has led to the expansion of newborn screenings. Governor Nixon welcomes the parents of Brady Alan Cunningham to a bill signing ceremony. "It’s an honor to welcome Dustin and Jessy Cunningham to the governor’s...
by admin | Jun 22, 2009 | Weather
Missouri is under a heat advisory through Wednesday with temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. Combined with the humidity, that brings the heat index to 105 or 110 degrees. Lori Harris-Franklin, an epidemiologist with the Department of Health and Senior...
by admin | Jun 1, 2009 | News
When a fire at the Anderson Guest House killed 11 people in 2006, legislation sought to strengthen fire safety inspection laws for health-care facilities. Follow-up legislation this year should help ease the burden on two state agencies charged with heading up...
