by Anthony Morabith | Oct 20, 2023 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
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...
by Bill Pollock | Jun 30, 2021 | Health / Medicine, Show Me Today
COVID-19 cases continue to surge in parts of Missouri putting us in the spotlight, even after the state had led the nation in controlling the virus spread. The Delta Variant of the virus is now the dominant strain in hotspots in southwest and northwest Missouri....
by Ashley Byrd | Dec 14, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
The state health department has officially signed off on dispensing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine statewide. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services issued its standing order today. The vaccine is being dispensed this week to health care...