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You may have heard the ticks are bad this year due to the mild winter or ticks are getting worse in Missouri. But what’s the reality of these claims? KBIA’s Rebecca Smith has more on how climate change may be impacting the ticks – and the humans of Missouri.

Regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom, including:At Tiny Rural Hospitals, Weary Doctors Treat Friends, FamilyConfidence in Midwest Economic Future…

Students in a Missouri School of Journalism multimedia class taught by Professors Kat Lucchesi and Major King started their spring semester thinking they…

Missouri's biggest cities and counties have banded together to track the prescription and sale of opioids.St. Louis County, the city of St. Louis and…

Public health is due for an upgrade. That was one take-away of a recent lecture from a 20-plus year veteran of the field, Dr. Anne Schuchat, the...

The bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease has been found at a hotel in a popular Missouri tourist town, and health officials say one of three people…

A doctor says a virus found in Missouri in 2009 appears to be showing up in other states.Dr. Scott Folk, director of adult infectious diseases at…

National public health officials are urging their state counterparts to be alert for avian flu infections in humans.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control…

An NPR producer found out firsthand what happens when a returnee from Liberia registers a temperature and must contact the U.S. health bureaucracy.

Americans had to dig deep into their wallets to cover costs associated with foodborne illnesses, according to new estimates from the U.S. Department…