missouri

Laws granting rights to unborn children have spread in the decades since the U.S. and Missouri supreme courts allowed Missouri’s definition of life as beginning at conception to stand. Now, a lawsuit shows how sprawling those laws have become.

They can no longer can be denied lifesaving care, including surgeries for heart defects. But now, aging adults with Down syndrome face a health system unprepared to care for them.

Facing shortages of critical care beds, medication and frontline staff amid the onslaught of RSV, COVID and the flu, hospitals serving Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are collaborating to get children the treatment they need.

Federal officials are investigating after reports that a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks could not get recommended care because hospital officials were concerned about Missouri’s strict abortion law.

There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report.

From 2019 to 2020, assaults on hospital staff by patients tripled at Cox Medical Center in Branson, Mo. Now personal panic buttons are being implemented to alert hospital security more easily.

On the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, many families struggling financially can get health care, thanks to Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, their neighbors on the Missouri side don't qualify.

The tobacco giant is supporting its first cigarette tax — 60 cents more per pack. But some health groups oppose Missouri's ballot measure, as do some education groups that would benefit from the tax.