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Dr. Stephanie Logan is the CEO of DeafLEAD – a Columbia-based group that supports the Deaf and hard of hearing community and recently launched a new ASL crisis line through 988.
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University of Missouri Health Care recently made a decision to end some gender-affirming care for all transgender minors. Last Friday, in response to this decision, hundreds gathered on MU’s campus in support of the transgender community.
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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.
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Maternal mortality is getting worse in the state of Missouri according to a new report released Thursday.
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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.”
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Farmer mental health is a complicated topic. Missouri Business Alert’s Katie Quinn has the story – and the voices of several farmers in Missouri.
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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.
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Kerry Karaffa is an embedded psychologist and mental health and wellbeing coordinator within the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services is hosting three mpox vaccination clinics in the upcoming days.