MU Health Care has opened its new Children’s Hospital and Birthing Center in Columbia. Moving is expected to wrap up this month for the new $230 million hospital. The new home includes 120 beds – with all private patient rooms so that families can be comfortable for...
Columbia-based MU Health Care has stopped providing gender transition care to those under the age of 18. The decision is the result of the new state law that bars doctors and medical staff from giving puberty blockers to minors or performing gender transition surgery...
Health professionals are trying to get the word out on concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Dr. Komal Ashraf is the director of the Concussion Program at MU Health Care. She is trying to educate the public. “Chromic traumatic encephalopathy is a thing,” she...
Three-quarters of Missouri is under a heat advisory through Friday evening. Forecasters predict daily afternoon and evening heat index values of between 100 and 109-degrees. Dr. Chris Sampson is an emergency department physician with MU Health Care. He said there’s a...
The University of Missouri in Columbia generated $5 billion dollars for the state’s economy, according to a new study. The company behind the impact study also shows MU provides nearly 50,000 direct and indirect jobs and those employees contributed close to...
