ST. LOUIS – St. Louis’ largest supermarket chain will stop selling tobacco products in all its stores at the beginning of 2020. Schnucks Markets announced Thursday, “the company will end…
Category: Health
Hip hop music gives new, welcoming twist to yoga
OLD NORTH ST. LOUIS – On any given Friday night, DJ Nico Marie can be found curating music for area events, parties and weddings. She gets crowds excited and moving,…
Bullets left in place can poison shooting survivors
ST. LOUIS – Blacks here face a proportionately higher threat of being shot than do members of other ethnic groups – and because of that, blacks also face a greater…
'Mean Girls' fundraiser airs worst tweets, aids abortion rights
CENTRAL WEST END – Timing might sabotage ACLU Missouri in its attempt to put the state’s eight-week abortion ban to a public vote, but that’s not stopping St. Louisans from…
CBD in St. Louis: Medical miracle or snake oil for sale?
ST. LOUIS – Preliminary research into the use of CBD suggests that it may have a variety of health benefits, but other experts are cautious and even skeptical. St. Louis is…
Happy hour at Fresh & Co offers guidance in response to abortion legislation
THE GROVE – Concerned St. Louisans packed into Fresh & Co. Studio on Thursday evening to learn the how-tos of volunteering in order to fight recent abortion legislation in Missouri.…
Garden grows bumper crop of fresh food, sense of community
JEFF-VANDER-LOU – Walking to the nearest grocery store and back with fresh produce would cost Rosie Willis, a senior citizen, about an hour and a half. But in less than…
Missouri abortion law causing anxiety, confusion, Granite City clinic says
GRANITE CITY, ILL. – Missouri’s recent abortion legislation has already begun to affect the Hope Clinic in Granite City, the clinic’s deputy director, Alison Dreith, says. Situated just across the…
Judge to hear case of Missouri's last abortion clinic on Thursday
CENTRAL WEST END – A judge will hear arguments Thursday over whether state health regulators can pull the license of the last abortion clinic operating in Missouri. A hearing on…
Health, happiness and sisterhood
ST. LOUIS—Since 1996, GirlTrek has focused its energy on the health of black and brown girls and women, motivating them to create change in their health and community through fitness…
Local non-profit helps women with trauma recovery
On the Top 20 list of most vulnerable cities for sex trafficking, St. Louis comes in eighteenth. For anyone who hasn’t experienced sex trafficking, that number might seem foreign or…
Project Ark brings themes of empowerment to HIV education
Looking as fashionable as Carrie Bradshaw herself, Sarah Hudson did her best to rouse the attendees of the second annual Sex and the City Women’s Empowerment Event. The event, sponsored…