Najifa Farhat
Health ReporterNajifa Farhat is an award-winning investigative reporter covering health for KBIA’s Health and Wealth Desk. Her reporting focuses on the intersection of health and broader issues of well-being, including environmental and climate impacts, food security, marginalized communities, and emerging solutions and technologies. She approaches her work with the belief that every story has a health component.
Farhat holds a master’s degree in environmental journalism from the University of Montana and has reported extensively across the Mountain West, Southwest Michigan and now, Missouri.
She can be reached at najifa.farhat@missouri.edu
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The results mean there will be no changes to the Missouri Supreme Court or the Eastern and Western districts of the Missouri Court of Appeals as a result of this year’s retention elections. -
Researchers found that endurance exercise changed how liver cells produced energy in male and female rats. Both groups showed improvements in liver health, but they appeared to reach those results through different biological pathways. -
Nationwide, the report found PFAS at 83% of 1,602 testing locations across 40 states and the District of Columbia -
Intermittent fasting is when people go without food for a prolonged period — usually anywhere from 16 to 72 hours, and sometimes even longer. Fasting isn’t new. People have practiced it for centuries for religious and cultural purposes. But now, it has gained popularity as a health trend too. -
Medical experts have long understood that replacing lost blood can be critical to survival. But transporting and storing blood outside hospitals presents significant logistical challenges. -
An analysis shows a rise in emergency room visits correlates to temperature increases. The highest numbers of visits occurred when severe daytime heat was combined with unusually warm nighttime temperatures. -
The new funding builds on more than $7 million previously awarded to Missouri for rural maternal health initiatives, including expanded doula training and certification, as well as mobile health care and community paramedicine services. -
On this month’s Socially Transmitted, KBIA's Najifa Farhat and Rebecca Smith look at what we do and do not know about the practice of mouth taping. -
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services data show 254 people died from heat-related causes between 2014 and 2026. About 6% of those deaths were listed as being related to occupational activities. -
The Climate Prediction Center says parts of southwestern Missouri could experience rapidly developing drought and extreme heat in early September
