RSV season in the U.S. is expected to stick around longer than usual this spring. That's prompting most states to continue to offer the vaccine to eligible babies and toddlers through the end of this month.

A community health center in southeast Kansas hopes exposing kids to health care careers through fun activities could lead them into the field in the future. It’s one way to hopefully fight a long-term shortage of health care workers in rural areas.

Currently under federal law, convicted drug offenders are banned from receiving SNAP benefits. A proposed Missouri House bill would opt out of the federal ban.

A Missouri bill that would mandate the counting and tracking of an allergy to mammalian products passed the House on Thursday by a wide margin.

Missouri veterans and first-responders would be able to possess "magic mushrooms" if they’re enrolled in a study and it's administered by a facilitator. Despite overwhelming support for the idea in past years, Thursday marks the first time the Missouri House has sent the bill on to the Senate.

All intoxicating hemp products, including THC seltzers currently sold in bars and grocery stores, would be removed from shelves in November if Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signs the bill into law. Such products are not regulated by any government agency.

The suit alleges that Kansas City-based CBD American Shaman failed to disclose the highly addictive effects of the drug 7-OH, which is available in gas stations and smoke shops across the state.

Hours after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill aimed at protecting crisis pregnancy centers, Republican lawmakers reversed the veto, citing a desire to preserve life in the state.

The activists who tried and failed to defeat Missouri's 2024 abortion-rights amendment have regrouped under a new PAC called“Her Health, Her Future." They're betting that more time, tighter coordination and earlier backing from top Missouri Republicans can help them pass an abortion ban measure this fall.

The Missouri Department of Public Safety and other state departments wrote in their alert that nitazene can be five to 10 times more potent than fentanyl. Recent wastewater surveillance reports from Missouri schools shows that it's becoming more common.

A University of Kansas Cancer Center bus retrofitted to serve as a clinic is headed out to cover rural communities in Kansas and western Missouri that don't have easy access to cancer screenings.

Alpha-gal syndrome is an allergy to red meat and other mammalian byproducts, such as dairy and gelatin, that comes from the bite of the lone star tick. And it's become more common in Missouri.