Health Care

At least 15,400 people in the southern Illinois 12th Congressional District are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. And nearly 20,000 use the Marketplace to buy insurance in the 13th Congressional District. Voters will have to decide whether they trust Republican lawmakers to come up with a replacement for the ACA, or if it’s safer to elect Democrats who have vowed to protect and improve the existing act.

Missouri has lost seven rural hospitals since 2014. It’s a trend seen in areas across the country, and it’s a topic explored extensively in the new podcast “Where It Hurts.”

Hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 are on the rise in Missouri, especially in parts of the outstate with fewer hospital resources.

The VA said not enough of Dent County's 1,000-plus veterans chose the clinic for health care, and without a certain number of patients, it was not viable to stay open.

Stroke patients in rural hospitals fare far worse than urban patients, according to new research from Washington University.Based on the records of nearly…

Soldiers, their families and veterans near Fort Leonard Wood in the Ozarks will have a new place to receive medical care. Construction on a $400 million,…

Missouri voters will get a chance to expand Medicaid.Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced Friday that he approved the petition to put Medicaid…

Washington University researchers are launching an international study to test whether the drug chloroquine can prevent coronavirus infection.Chloroquine…

A small plexiglass window peeks from behind a curtain. Families will have 15 minutes to grieve through that window, looking at a loved one’s body sheathed…

At the St. Louis hospital where Emma Crocker works as a registered nurse, only employees working in areas with confirmed COVID-19 patients, like the…