Health & Wealth

Michelle Trupiano, the Executive Director of the Missouri Family Health Council, sat down with KBIA’s Rebecca Smith and spoke about The Right Time, a program that provides education and access to low or no cost birth control to Missourians across the state.

Maternal mortality is getting worse in the state of Missouri according to a new report released Thursday.

A July report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, a national policy group, found that 19 of Missouri’s 57 rural hospitals are at risk of shuttering because of “serious financial problems.”

Farmer mental health is a complicated topic. Missouri Business Alert’s Katie Quinn has the story – and the voices of several farmers in Missouri.

Carlos Wade is an inmate at the southeast Missouri Correctional Center in the Bootheel. He's been in prison for 28 years – since he was 17 years old, and he maintains his innocence.

Kerry Karaffa is an embedded psychologist and mental health and wellbeing coordinator within the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.

Most tick-borne illnesses aren’t life-threatening or chronic – if caught early and treated. But ticks create an additional challenge for the unhoused community of Columbia.

Kerry Karaffa is a University of Missouri Counseling Center psychologist that is embedded within the MU College of Veterinary Medicine and works directly with vet students.

It’s tick season. And while ticks are annoying when you head outside, KBIA’s Rebecca Smith tells us about the risk of tick-borne illnesses and what you can do to keep yourself safe.

Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services is hosting three mpox vaccination clinics in the upcoming days.