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Synthetic opioids such as Fentanyl are causing more deaths than natural opioids.

The state will repay educational costs for health care workers who are willing to work in underserved areas. Another program will increase the number of medical residencies in Missouri.

In a letter Wednesday to Missouri Department of Social Services Director Todd Richardson, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services assessed how well the state is complying with rules for disenrolling people from health insurance programs for poor and disabled people. The average person calling the social services helpline had to wait 48 minutes to talk to someone.

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.”

MU Health Care’s Concussion Program is offering a free baseline screening event from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on July 22.

There is a shortage of CNAs all over Missouri, according to a 2023 workforce report from the Missouri Hospital Association. Along with hospitals, staffing nursing homes is a cause for concern.

MU Health Care has already recommended earlier, more frequent screenings

Updated on April 27 at 10:00 a.m.: A St. Louis County judge has temporarily blocked attorney general Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule. Now, the rule is set to go into effect on Monday at 5 p.m.The ACLU, Lambda Legal and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner filed a temporary restraining order on Monday to prevent the implementation of the restrictive trans health care rule.

Kiera Bradshaw is a senior and part-time hairstylist at the University of Missouri. She spoke about the mental health impacts of hair, texturism and hair depression in the Black community.Texturism is the discrimination against people with kinkier, coarse hair in the 4B and 4C range, as well as a preference for looser and smoother textures in the 3A to 3C range.

Many people think of the arts and the sciences as completely separate worlds. But as KBIA’s Grace Kenyon reports, when it comes to medicine, these two disciplines are closer than you might think.