public health

In a historic step on March 29, the Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan for over-the-counter sale.Here's how this harm reduction measure might impact people here in Columbia.

The Saline County and Taney County Health Departments have recently begun offering WIC clinics to their communities on large buses with built-in exam rooms.

The local newscast from the KBIA newsroom in Columbia, Missouri

Juul and other e-cigarette makers are facing new limits on the sale of their products in the U.S. But internationally, vaping companies are looking to…

Poplar Bluff, Missouri, is located deep in the southeastern part of the state, in the area known as the Bootheel. One resident joked to me that if…

Kansas City's two measles outbreaks are over, but officials are just starting to calculate the costs of containing them.The Kansas City Star reports that…

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...

Storytelling and Public Health Policy: Lise Saffran explores how to use narrative to effect change.

The Columbia-Boone County Department of Public Health and Human services celebrates Public Health Week April 7-13. The department is promoting this year's…

A recent study by researchers at Chicago’s Roosevelt University found that between 2007 and 2011, the number of deaths from heroin overdose in the state…