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The outbreak of COVID-19 in southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas has become the nation's largest and is mostly driven by the highly contagious delta variant.
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Agriculture, business and health care groups in Missouri are discussing ways to help boost the number of people in rural communities who receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Their goal is to change the way vaccine advocates communicate their message to rural residents.
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Appointments for a COVID vaccination are still easier to find in rural areas, and many people living in the St. Louis area are headed out on long drives to get them.
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About three-quarters of Kansas and Missouri counties lack intensive care units, forcing critically ill rural patients to seek care in major cities.
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The rising rates of COVID-19 in Missouri's rural areas are causing the state's hospitals to become overwhelmed.
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The main metro areas in Missouri are seeing coronavirus numbers that are stable and moving slowly. Much of the outstate region is experiencing a spike in cases.
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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.
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When physician Erik Martin left his home in southwest Missouri to help with New York’s COVID-19 outbreak in April, his county had fewer than 10...
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For Dr. Sameer Vohra and his colleagues, a focus on improving the lives of people in southern and central Illinois has long been at the heart of their…
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A study of more than 1,000 women in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa diagnosed with ovarian cancer showed those with the more lethal stage IV tended to come from…