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Missouri has one of the highest rates of gun-related deaths in the nation.New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rank Missouri sixth…
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When it comes to vaccinating adolescents, Missouri ranks among the worst in the nation.The report from the nonprofit United Health Foundation ranks…
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The nation’s opioid crisis is threatening to undo decades of HIV prevention work, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said…
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Rates of three common sexually transmitted diseases have risen to a record high level nationwide, and St. Louis continues to rank high among cities,…
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The breed of mosquito most likely to carry the Zika virus probably won’t make its way to St. Louis this summer, but local public health agencies are still…
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As WHO declares Zika virus a ‘Global Health Emergency,’ what does that mean for the U.S., St. Louis?As of Friday, at least 31 people in the U.S. have been infected with the Zika virus. That includes three pregnant women — two in Illinois and one in New…
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William Stage, a former investigator for the Centers for Disease Control in St. Louis and longtime writer for the Riverfront Times, is back with a new…
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Rumors of a link between autism and the measles vaccine persist, although the original paper that claimed the link, as well as its author, have been…
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After test results confirmed that a nurse in Dallas had contracted the deadly Ebola virus from a patient, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and…
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Missouri is still near the bottom of the pack when it comes to childhood vaccination rates.The results of the CDC's annual National Immunization Survey…