Missouri is building a new $183 million state laboratory that will be home to several state agencies. The multi-story 250,000 square-foot center will be housed next to the current State Public Health Laboratory in Jefferson City, which Mike Massman oversees. He told...
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...
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....
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...
