Embedded bias in medical records promotes discrimination
David Confer, a bicyclist and an audio technician, told his doctor during a 2019 appointment in Washington, D.C., that he…
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Conservationists celebrate milestone in effort to save Missouri’s endangered hellbenders
In dripping black wetsuits and scuba masks, standing in the middle of a southern Missouri river last month, a state…
In race for monkeypox vaccines, experts see repeat of COVID
(AP) — Moves by rich countries to buy large quantities of monkeypox vaccine, while declining to share doses with Africa,…
Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered
WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect…
‘Time bomb’ lead pipes set to be removed – but water utilities first have to find them
TRENTON, Mo. — It took three years for officials to notice lead was seeping into the city’s drinking water. Missouri…
Addressing the ‘trust factor’: Researchers tackle health disparities using genetics
Quenton Tompkins’ family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, S.C. His grandfather was a sharecropper in McCormick. His…
State launches cancer study after toxic air pollution hot spot is identified
After learning from a ProPublica analysis that his city in southwestern Missouri is a hot spot of toxic air pollution,…
Health officials see bright future in poop surveillance
MODESTO, Calif. — One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill…
Bridgeton landfill cleanup slowed after more nuclear waste found
BRIDGETON (AP) — Nuclear waste buried in a Missouri landfill that sits near an underground smolder is more extensive than…
Area needs to be ready for next earthquake, experts warn
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Experts have warned for decades that a large swath of the central U.S. is at high…
What people can learn from one negative rapid COVID test (Hint: very little)
Julie Ann Justo, an infectious disease clinical pharmacist for a South Carolina hospital system, hoped Christmas week would finally be…
December 2021 was the warmest on record in Missouri — by a long shot
Missouri logged its warmest average December temperatures on record last month, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Jake’s mice: Searching for answers to the puzzle of autism
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jake Litvag leaned in for a closer look as a lab mouse scurried around an enclosure,…
Wreck of last U.S. slave ship is mostly intact on Gulf coast
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Researchers studying the wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, buried in mud on the Alabama coast…
Space telescope is launched on quest to behold first stars
The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the…
Since 1980s, U.S. chances of a white Christmas have been melting
A white Christmas seems to be slowly morphing from a reliable reality to a dream of snowy holidays past for…