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KBIA went inside an honor dorm at the Missouri Department of Corrections' Algoa Correctional Center to learn more about the unique housing unit for "exemplary residents"
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In Missouri and throughout the United States, syphilis rates have risen rapidly in the last decade. Pediatric infectious disease specialist Brian Allen shared more information with KBIA.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a health advisory due to an increase in measles cases across the United States – including in Missouri. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith sat down with Dr. Amruta Padhye, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at University of Missouri Health Care, to learn more about the disease and what symptoms folks should be on the lookout for.
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Room at the Inn executive director John Trapp updated KBIA on how the former winter shelter has been faring since its transition to year-round homeless shelter in October.
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The Boone County Overdose Response Coalition hosted a community discussion Tuesday night at Hickman High School to address an increase in drug overdose-related deaths in Boone County.
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The Missouri Department of Corrections is expanding its medication-assisted treatment program, making more types of medication available to more people in prison.
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Rachel Winograd is the director of the Addiction Science, Practice, Implementation, Research, & Education (ASPIRE) Lab at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
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After several months of discussion and anticipation from community members, the Columbia City Council declared Columbia a “safe haven” city for LGBTQ+ people this week .
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Cape Girardeau County has approved a new deputy coroner one week after the removal of former coroner Wavis Jordan.
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The newly released 2024-2028 Missouri Suicide Prevention Plan offers tools and strategies that are intended to help decrease Missouri’s number of suicide deaths.
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The CDC case counts are reported weekly by doctors - 83 COVID cases in were reported in Boone County at the end of January, down 115 cases from the last week of December.
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Missy Rice of the Department of Health and Senior Services' Show Me Healthy Women talks with KBIA's Anna Spidel about why cervical cancer screenings are important and how patients can stay informed.