Health

Across Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, more than 270,000 people ages 65 and older live with Alzheimer's disease. Government support to help people detect dementia early is critical — especially in rural areas — advocates say.

The legislature-mandated report reviewed pregnancy-related deaths between 2019 and 2023. During that period, 340 Missouri women died while pregnant or within one year after the end of a pregnancy.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Missouri and across the nation, claiming more than 15,000 lives in the state each year.

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway was the lead Republican attorney general behind the letter. Sent on Hanaway's office letterhead, the attorneys general state that "the upsurge in home-setting chemical abortions has serious implications for the Safe Drinking Water Act."

This year is on track to be one of the worst for tick-related emergency room visits. Here's what to do if one of the pests bites you.

The annual child wellness report Kids Count found child poverty has improved in Kansas and Missouri compared to the years before the pandemic. But both states still have tens of thousands of children without health insurance.

The Department of Social Services submitted its request to postpone, along with a "revision of definitions," to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on June 3

The Money Follows the Person program was set to restart this summer, offering more ways for people to live independently. But Kansas pulled back out of fear that the federal funding was disappearing. Now, social service agencies wonder what will happen to those people.

Kansas City officials are working on a new way to ban so-called "conversion therapy." The move comes just weeks after the Kansas City Council repealed a prior ban on the discredited practice because of a Supreme Court ruling against a similar law in Colorado and a lawsuit from the Missouri Attorney General.

Mosaic Life Care has announced the addition of three new pharmacies, including a specialty pharmacy and two same-day and retail pharmacy locations, aimed at improving patient access to medications and care.