updated Mon. March 18, 2024
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JBH News
March 22, 2018
The St. Louis County Department of Public Health and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services are working on the matter thereby indicating that there is at least one person who has been tested positive with the virus from among those who went to the sites on those dates. As said by theÃâà...
WAND
March 22, 2018
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (WAND) — Missouri health officials are warning of possible measles exposure on the west side of St. Louis. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says people could have been exposed to the virus on March 13 and 14. NBC affiliate KSDK is reporting theÃâà...
KSDK.com
March 21, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is working with the St. Louis County Department of Public Health to notify people who may have been exposed to measles on March 13 or March 14. Locations where exposures may have occurred on March 13 are The Magic House in Kirkwood,Ãâà...
Sedalia Democrat
March 21, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is actively working to raise awareness of how common birth defects are and what steps can help prevent them, according to Director Randall Williams. Most maternal deaths are preventable, but there's room for improvement, Williams commented.
KSHB
March 21, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced Wednesday it is investigating the possibility of a measles outbreak in the St. Louis area. As of now, officials in Missouri have not confirmed any measles cases in the state. Their focus is on the following locations which may have beenÃâà...
TIME
March 21, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said the measles exposures might have taken place March 13 and 14, in locations including The Magic House in Kirkwood; Racanelli's New York Pizzeria in Kirkwood; and Homewood Suites in Chesterfield. Both the Missouri Department of HealthÃâà...
Braymer Bee
March 20, 2018
... buckle up, everyone, every trip, every time – and put your cell phone down if you're driving – Buckle Up Phone Down.” For more information, contact MoDOT Director of Highway Safety, Bill Whitfield at 573-751-5417, or Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Chief, Office of Public Information,Ãâà...
Houston Herald
March 19, 2018
Funding for the project is from the Maternal, Child contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The health assessment showed Texas County faces the same challenges as many other rural communities: Lower wages, higher poverty rates and fewer resources. The county has aÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 15, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services did not immediately return a request for comment. “I'm not an unreasonable person," Alferman said. "All I want to do is get information that I think the public of the state of Missouri is entitled to, to know if we have a serious health risk that the departmentÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
March 12, 2018
There were only 135 active cards as of December, according to Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services. By law, there are two licensed facilities that are allowed to grow and cultivate the cannabis plant used to make hemp extract — they are BeLeaf Company and Noah's Arc Foundation.
Kansas City Star
March 12, 2018
The two prime pillars of journalism are trust and truth. We are grateful to all those in this series who trusted us with the truth of their stories. That would be people like Brittany Koerselman, 19, a divorced single mom of a 3-year-old son who was living in northern Iowa when she received an odd message fromÃâà...
Columbia Missourian
March 12, 2018
Justin Alferman first proposed Wednesday at a House budget committee hearing a 10 percent budget reduction for administrative staff at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Republican Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick then threatened even deeper cuts if the committee doesn't get answers, theÃâà...
Buffalo Reflex
March 2, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is looking for organizations throughout the state to help feed thousands of children who would otherwise go without meals during the summer months when school is not in session. The Summer Food Service Program reimburses organizations forÃâà...
St. Louis Public Radio
March 1, 2018
That's according to a 2016 report from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. But the stigma surrounding the virus in the black community makes it a challenge to address. Local organizations like Faith Communities United have been working to break the stigma down by partnering withÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 28, 2018
All of those risks are compounded when pregnant women don't see a doctor regularly. A report released by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services in May found that 17.5 percent of Missouri women received no prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy. That's partly an issue of access,Ãâà...
News-Press Now
February 21, 2018
Link has open up discussions with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. They already inspect all the other private nursing homes in the state. It can't hurt to have another set of eyes inspecting those seven homes, Link said. So Link's in negotiations to have Health and Senior ServicesÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 21, 2018
U.S. deaths linked to opioids have quadrupled since 2000 to roughly 42,000 in 2016. Almost 1,000 Missourians died in 2016 because of a heroin or opioid overdose, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The House bill's sponsor, Republican Rep. Jay Barnes, said during aÃâà...
KRCU
February 21, 2018
The 2017-2018 flu season is estimated to be at its peak, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) says it's still a good time to get vaccinated. Director of the DHSS, Dr. Randall Williams says although the vaccine's overall effectiveness is less than those of past years for adults,Ãâà...
Arkansas Online
February 16, 2018
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced in December that a worker at a Huddle House restaurant in Dexter, Mo., about 60 miles from Corning, had been diagnosed with hepatitis A and had handled food while potentially contagious in late November and early December.
U.S. News & World Report
February 15, 2018
In parts of St. Louis County, the infant mortality rate was over 16 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services data from 2009-2013. The rate in those areas was higher than in Syria, where it was 14.8 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2017, according to the CIA.
Columbia Missourian
February 12, 2018
In parts of St. Louis County, the infant mortality rate was over 16 deaths per 1,000 live births, according to Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services data from 2009-2013. The rate in those areas was higher than in Syria, where it was 14.8 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2017, according to the CIA.
Columbia Missourian
December 31, 1999
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri lawmakers frustrated over a lack of information about a sometimes deadly virus have slashed the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' budget. The House Budget Committee this past week approved eliminating 10 staffers in the office of the Health Department'sÃâà...
The Missourian
December 31, 1999
The House budget committee has threatened to cut the administration budget for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) by as much as 10 percent for not releasing Bourbon virus testing results. State Rep. Justin Alferman, R-Hermann, who is the vice chairman of the committee, toldÃâà...
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
When people with an opioid addiction call Susan Whitmore's Kansas City non-profit, they're taking the first step toward recovery: admitting they have a problem. So it's frustrating for Whitmore when people who have finally gotten to that point are stymied by what seems like a more straightforward step:Ãâà...
The Missourian
December 31, 1999
Staffers from Gov. Eric Greitens' office have come to the aid of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) after threats of budget cuts for not releasing the results of Bourbon virus testing at Meramec State Park. On Wednesday, the House budget committee gave DHSS Director Dr.
