by Alisa Nelson | Aug 3, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News
A Medicaid expansion measure is one of the hot items at the ballot box in Tuesday’s primary election. Missouri voters will be asked whether to expand Medicaid to another 230,000 low-income adults. Currently, about 950,000 Missourians get government-funded healthcare....
by Missourinet Contributor | Jul 22, 2020 | Education, Health / Medicine, News
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development will be a part of the national effort to find a COVID-19 vaccine. The two private schools are part of the COVID-19 Prevention Network...
by Alisa Nelson | May 11, 2020 | News, Science / Technology
Later this month, north St. Louis County native Bob Behnken will put on his spacesuit and command the historic SpaceX flight to the International Space Station. He will strap into his seat in the cockpit of the Dragon spacecraft and fire up the vehicle. After a...
by Alisa Nelson | Mar 24, 2020 | Education, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis might have a treatment for the coronavirus. If successful, Jeffrey Henderson, an Associate Professor of Medicine, tells Missourinet a treatment could be available in a couple of weeks at the earliest. The approach...
by Alisa Nelson | Mar 18, 2020 | Education, Health / Medicine, News
Two of the individuals with COVID-19 are School of Medicine physicians and the other two are undergraduate students. In a statement from Chancellor Andrew Martin, he says the doctors – who have been quarantined – have not been working with patients. The students...
