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Politics
Health agency appeals ruling requiring it to pay Planned Parenthood legal fees
Missouri’s health department is appealing a Cole County judge’s ruling that put the state on the hook to pay at…
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Politics
Judge orders DHSS to pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees in license dispute
A Cole County judge denied the state health department’s attempt to relitigate a case stemming from a 2019 licensing dispute…
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Coronavirus
Parson declares end to ‘COVID-19 crisis’; state will treat virus as endemic
Missouri will officially transition from treating COVID-19 as a public health crisis to treating it as endemic, much like the…
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Health
State argues it shouldn’t pay Planned Parenthood’s legal fees in licensing dispute
Its effort to deny Planned Parenthood a license to perform abortions in Missouri was unsuccessful, but the state health department…
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Health
State health agency seeks control of Title X funds that go to Planned Parenthood
Missouri’s state health department has applied to oversee federal family planning funds, a move reproductive health advocates fear would give…
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Politics
Parson’s pick to lead state health department rejected by Missouri Senate
The Missouri Senate refused to confirm Donald Kauerauf as Gov. Mike Parson’s health director on Tuesday, leaving Kauerauf banned from…
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Health
Anti-vaccine protesters rally against Senate confirmation of Missouri health director
State health director Donald Kauerauf adamantly spoke against mandating face masks and COVID-19 vaccines during a hearing Monday, as anti-vaccination…
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Health
Planned Parenthood wants feds to block Missouri rule targeting its Medicaid funding
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri is calling for President Joe Biden’s administration to intervene to…
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Coronavirus
New state health director says ‘masks work’ as COVID cases rise, school in session
As the fight over mask mandates in schools continues, and the state’s attorney general wages lawsuits to block them, Missouri’s…
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Coronavirus
Missouri awards no-bid contract to boost staffing, antibody treatments, field hospitals
A Texas-based company stands to earn upwards of $30 million in Missouri through a no-bid emergency contract to provide health…
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Coronavirus
Missouri COVID death toll ignores antigen-tested cases as official tally tops 10,000
Missouri officially passed the grim milestone of 10,000 COVID-19 deaths Thursday when the Department of Health and Senior Services added…
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Coronavirus
Missouri COVID cases, hospitalizations rise as officials warn of infections in children
Missouri’s average of daily COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have reached levels not seen since January, with health officials warning that…
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Coronavirus
Health official calls COVID vaccine falsehoods ‘a bunch of baloney’
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s top adviser on COVID-19 is lashing out at vaccine falsehoods on social media, adding to the…
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Coronavirus
As COVID swamps hospitals, Springfield asks Missouri for temporary care site
Facing a looming shortage of beds caused by rapidly rising COVID-19 cases, health care providers in Springfield are asking the…
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Coronavirus
Missouri considers vaccine incentive program
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s administration floated the idea of a statewide COVID-19 vaccination incentive program and the…
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News
Judge rejects residency requirement for Missouri medical marijuana licenses
A federal judge last week blocked Missouri from enforcing a requirement that medical marijuana licenses go to businesses owned by…
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Business
Court orders state to release records on medical marijuana program
A state appeals court ruled Tuesday that Missouri regulators were wrong to withhold copies of successful medical marijuana applications from litigants…
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Business
Secrecy around ownership raises questions about marijuana networks
The Missouri House voted Tuesday afternoon to require state regulators to turn over ownership information for businesses granted medical marijuana…
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Coronavirus
Year into pandemic, Missouri data miss 80,000 cases, 1,000 deaths
The Hickory County Health Department reported 853 total local COVID-19 cases in its weekly update Friday, five more than a week…
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Coronavirus
Adding antigen tests to Missouri COVID-19 report will boost positive case counts
Data on COVID-19 infections that local health departments have been reporting for months – and telling their residents represent the…
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Business
Missouri pharmacies prep for COVID-19 vaccines
More than 23,000 initial shots of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across Missouri, where by Wednesday 5,474 people in Missouri…
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Coronavirus
Missouri health officials replacing outdated computer system
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — It took a global pandemic to convince Missouri health officials to abandon a more than two-decade-old,…
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Featured
Planned Parenthood abortion clinic here gets new license
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s health department issued on Thursday another license to the state’s only abortion clinic after a…
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