Sarah Fentem

Missouri health officials have tied the strain of E. coli that sickened 115 people in the region to other outbreaks in Illinois, North and South Dakota, Ohio, Kansas and Indiana.

Chesterfield-based health system Mercy will cover Anthem patients in Missouri in 2025.

The FDA has now joined the Mo. Dept. of Health and Senior Services and the CDC in investigating the source of the recent E. coli contamination in the St. Louis area.

A small elementary school in St. Charles canceled class Thursday after at least 90 students became sick with the flu.

The chairman of St. Louis-based Enterprise Holdings and his wife have donated $50 million to Washington University's neuroscience department.

Planned Parenthood is asking a Kansas City judge to reconsider an order that left some abortion restrictions in place after she temporarily struck down a Missouri ban on the procedure.

Advocates for abortion rights cheered when voters approved Amendment 3, which enshrined the right to an abortion in the Missouri Constitution. But nearly two months after the ballot initiative passed, the procedure still isn’t available in the state.

Because some of Missouri's licensing restrictions are still on the books, Planned Parenthood providers said they cannot perform abortions even after an order lifted the state's overall abortion ban.

Hundreds gather as the group Missouri for Constitutional Freedom launches a signature collecting event for a constitutional amendment that would legalize abortion up until fetal viability on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, at The Pageant in St. Louis’ West End neighborhood.

Some Webster Groves residents oppose neighborhood pediatric mental health hospital St. Louis Public Radio | By Sarah Fentem