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Jaime Basnett is the ALS research program manager at NextGen Precision Health. She spoke about challenges rural ALS patients can face seeking care and what NextGen is doing to help.
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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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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.
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According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer accounted for nearly 14.7% of all new US cancer cases in 2023.
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Missouri's nursing home regulation allows poor care, and sometimes abuse, to continue for years with few consequences.
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Incarceration can have a lasting impact on people, which makes community on the outside even more important. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith caught up with some former juvenile lifers on a cool, breezy day in August.
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Paige Spears has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. At the age of 26, he was given a life sentence plus 30 years for an armed robbery he committed in 1988 – where no one was physically injured. He’s now 62.Betty Cummings is his mother, and still lives in Ferguson, Missouri. She’s now 87-years-old and spoke about how the many years of Paige’s incarceration have impacted her.
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Missouri officials attribute part of the rise to an increase in fentanyl-related deaths and unsafe sleeping conditions.
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Jamie Morton is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Iowa and a former nurse. She led a study that found stigma can impact health outcomes of opioid-dependent moms.
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A study conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Iowa found that stigma can play a part the health behaviors of mothers who use opioids.
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This month, the American Cancer Society expanded its lung cancer screening recommendations to yearly, low-dose CT scans for those aged 50 to 80 who formerly or currently smoke and have a 20 or greater "pack year" history. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith spoke with Dr. Sebastian Wiesemann and Dr. Vipul Bhanderi from Ellis Fischel Cancer Center about these new recommendations.
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Being a veterinarian and helping animals can bring a lot of joy. But the job also comes with a host of stressors that can affect veterinarians’ mental health, and the field is starting to have more conversations about it.