Missouri’s Thin Dental Safety Net Stretched Amid Medicaid Expansion
At the Access Family Care clinics in southwestern Missouri, the next available nonemergency dental appointment is next summer. Northwest Health
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If Congress Adds Dental Coverage to Medicare, Should All Seniors Get It?
William Stork needs a tooth out. That’s what the 71-year-old retired truck driver’s dentist told him during a recent checkup.
Read MoreTrabajadores de salud alertan sobre el aumento de la violencia en hospitales
El departamento de emergencias del Hospital San Leandro, en California, donde trabaja la enfermera Mawata Kamara, se cerró de urgencia
Read More‘Are You Going to Keep Me Safe?’ Hospital Workers Sound Alarm on Rising Violence
The San Leandro Hospital emergency department, where nurse Mawata Kamara works, went into lockdown recently when a visitor, agitated about
Read MoreCovid Is Killing Rural Americans at Twice the Rate of Urbanites
Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that
Read MoreMás de la mitad de los estados han revertido poderes de salud pública durante la pandemia
Motivados por votantes enojados por los cierres y los mandatos sobre el uso de máscaras durante la pandemia, legisladores republicanos
Read MoreLack of a Vaccine Mandate Becomes Competitive Advantage in Hospital Staffing Wars
In the rural northeastern corner of Missouri, Scotland County Hospital has been so low on staff that it sometimes had
Read MoreConcert Venues Are Banking on Proof of Vaccines or Negative Tests to Woo Back Fans
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — Fans of the band Wilco could have reasonably interpreted frontman Jeff Tweedy singing “I Am Trying
Read MoreWhat Missouri Learned the Hard Way About Rapid Covid Testing in Schools
Early in the tumultuous 2020-21 school year, Missouri officials made a big gamble: set aside roughly 1 million rapid covid
Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Hot Covid Summer
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Read MoreAs Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry
Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide
Read MoreJournalists Dig in on Delta Variant Risks and Opioid Overdose Deaths
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber discussed outbreaks caused by the covid-19 delta variant in Missouri and elsewhere on Newsy on
Read MoreThe Delta Variant Thrives in a State of Political and Public Health Discord
ST. LOUIS — The day after Missouri Gov. Mike Parson finished his bicentennial bus tour to drum up tourism to
Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: How to Expand Health Coverage
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Read MoreWhat It Means When Celebrities Stay Coy About Their Vaccine Status
When two St. Louis Blues hockey players were sidelined because of covid-19 just days before this year’s NHL playoffs, the
Read MoreMore Than 100 Missouri Schools Have Bought ‘Often Unproven’ Air-Cleaning Technology
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Scott Dulle scoured the internet for ways to safely get kids back into St. Thomas
Read MoreFor Toddlers, Pandemic Shapes Development During Formative Years
CASTLE POINT, Mo. — Lucretia Wilks, who runs a small day care out of her home in north St. Louis
Read MoreKidney Experts Say It’s Time to Remove Race From Medical Algorithms. Doing So Is Complicated.
Alphonso Harried recently came across a newspaper clipping about his grandfather receiving his 1,000th dialysis treatment. His grandfather later died
Read MoreIn Missouri and Other States, Flawed Data Makes It Hard to Track Vaccine Equity
Throughout the covid-19 vaccination effort, public health officials and politicians have insisted that providing shots equitably across racial and ethnic
Read MoreKHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Roe v. Wade on the Ropes
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case next term
Read MoreStark Racial Disparities Persist in Vaccinations, State-Level CDC Data Shows
Black Americans’ covid-19 vaccination rates are still lagging months into the nation’s campaign, while Hispanics are closing the gap and
Read MoreCovid Shot in the Arm Not Enough to Keep Pharmacies in Business
Tobin’s pharmacy and department store had already stocked its shelves with Easter and Mother’s Day items last spring, and the
Read MoreVirtual Care Spreads in Missouri Health System, Home to ‘Hospital Without Beds’
When Tom Becker was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in March 2020, the 60-year-old EMS helicopter pilot from Washington, Missouri,
Read MoreSnag a Vaccine Appointment, Then Face the Next Hurdle: How to Get There?
The airport says a lot about Cortez, Colorado: The single-engine planes that fly into its one-room airport seat nine passengers
Read MoreBrecha de género contra covid: se vacunan más mujeres que hombres
Mary Ann Steiner condujo dos horas y media desde su casa en University City, un suburbio de St. Louis, hasta
Read MoreThe Gender Vaccine Gap: More Women Than Men Are Getting Covid Shots
This story also ran on USA Today. It can be republished for free. Mary Ann Steiner drove 2½ hours from
Read MoreMissouri ‘Voted for This Lie,’ Says State Rep Trying to Block Medicaid Expansion
It is hard to qualify for Medicaid as an adult in Missouri. Single adults aren’t eligible for coverage through the
Read MoreJournalists Dive Deep Into Roots of Vaccine Distrust in Prisons and Covid’s Toll on Public Health
Reporter Eric Berger discussed vaccine hesitancy among inmates at a Missouri correctional center with Newsy on Thursday. Click here to
Read MoreHow One State’s Public Health Defunding Led to Vaccination Chaos
ST. LOUIS — Missourians have driven hours to find vaccines in rural counties — at least those with cars and
Read MoreInmates’ Distrust of Prison Health Care Fuels Distrust of Covid Vaccines
One November night in a Missouri prison, Charles Graham woke his cellmate of more than a dozen years, Frank Flanders,
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