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The first confirmed case of measles within the state of Missouri in 2025 was announced today. The case was diagnosed in a child visiting Taney County in southern Missouri who had recently traveled abroad.
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A new research project at the University of Missouri is looking to make streets safer for everyone through lidar technology. -
DHSS distributed the federal money in the form of grants and contracts to organizations such as the Missouri Immunization Coalition, which educates and advocates for immunizations. -
Missouri Supreme Court rules in favor of the attorney general's appeal motions in the Christopher Dunn case. Dunn, who was exonerated for a wrongful murder conviction, spent 34 years in prison. -
This will be the second research reactor to be built in Columbia, and is expected to cost more than $1 billion. -
The Senate Appropriations Committee boosted funding to the foundation formula and this week will finish amending the $48 billion spending plan approved in the Missouri House. -
Patient advocates said they could discriminate against those in vulnerable health.
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People often use the wrong painkiller or take too much too quickly, increasing the risk of side effects, say pharmacists. Here are safer and more effective ways to take drugs like Advil and Tylenol. -
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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MU Health Care is $20 million ahead of what was budgeted in Missouri fiscal year 2025.
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Fifteen activists gathered at Yellow Dog Bookshop on Thursday to protest a Missouri House bill that would overturn Prop A's sick leave provision. -
The Missouri Family Health Council (MFHC) was expecting year 4 of a 5 year grant for $8.5 million until The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services informed the council and 15 other Title X grantees that the money was being temporarily withheld.
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