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10:35 am
Tue April 3, 2012

Health rankings: St. Louis City among the least healthy counties in Missouri

Credit (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Health rankings for 3,000 counties and the District of Columbia are available at www.countyhealthrankings.org.
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St. Louis City is among the ten least healthy counties in Missouri.

That's according to nationwide county health rankings released today by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Minority Health
5:22 pm
Mon April 2, 2012

SLU hosts forum on minority health

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Saint Louis University is hosting a forum on Tuesday about the public health issues facing minorities, in particular African Americans.

A panel of local academics from SLU and Washington University will present their research on topics ranging from maternal health to how segregation affects health literacy.

SLU community health expert Keon Gilbert will talk about the relationship of education to health outcomes in young African American men at risk of dropping out of high school.

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Bats - White-Nose Syndrome
12:16 pm
Mon April 2, 2012

Bat disease confirmed in Missouri, likely to spread

Credit (Marvin Moriarity/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
A little brown bat showing symptoms of white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont (April, 2009).
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Updated at 3:00 p.m. to clarify and expand description of white-nose syndrome.

A disease that has killed millions of bats across the eastern U.S. has been confirmed in Missouri for the first time.

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