Health Care

Beginning Tuesday, Planned Parenthood will take over the former Tri-Rivers Family Planning center in Rolla. The Title X health center will offer contraceptives, pregnancy tests and other reproductive health services to residents throughout Missouri.

Missouri residents may have heard ghoulish tales of “Doc Annie” Smith, a physician who looms large in the state’s mythology for performing illegal abortions in the early 1900s. Today, the truth about her work has largely disappeared.

Army, Air Force and reserve members will be providing free medical, dental and vision care in Ava, Eminence and Houston through July 8.

The order from County Executive Sam Page extends existing programs at the health department and expands patient counseling and anti-bias and anti-racism training, as well as clinical training around contraception.

More than 600 local high school students have attended the Best Healthcare Institute. The program boasts a 100% college acceptance rate.

Through a combination of quiet singing and gentle touch, music therapy can help ease stress for premature infants.

Research has found Medicaid expansion is linked to lower rates of people reoffending, and a key aspect appears to be mental health care.

Health insurance can present barriers to care. Some physicians are choosing to open clinics that charge membership fees instead.

Missouri had the 4th highest rate in the country of residents taking benzodiazepines, and that was before the pandemic amped up anxiety.

Mayor Tishaura Jones, state Rep. Kimberly-Ann Collins and Alderwoman Dwinderlin Evans say they agree with residents that naming a small hospital for Homer G. Phillips threatens his legacy.