public health

The Blue Springs restaurant closed after violating Jackson County's mask mandate but could reopen in Independence next month.

Kansas City pediatrician sees hopeful trend in coronavirus cases among youngsters.

Several metro demonstrations joined more than 600 nationwide in support of abortion services.

As presiding judge of the Jackson County Court, Harry Truman pushed through a bond issue in 1928 that led to the construction of Rural Jackson County Emergency Hospital on a one-time farm the court purchased in the mid-1800s for $1,000.

COVID cases in the Kansas City area are trending downward but infectious disease doctor warns that focus must remain on mitigation practices.

Academics and officials alike describe rural Americans’ greater rates of poor health and their limited options for medical care as a deadly combination.

A Boone County Circuit Court judge also rejected Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s effort to sue more than one school at once.

Rae's Cafe and its owner, Amanda Wohletz, had defied the county's health order and allowed unmasked customers and employees into the restaurant.

The top Democrat in the Senate says calls to action against Biden's vaccination plan amount to "sound and fury."

Like most of the country, Missouri’s childcare system is a patchwork of private and public facilities that are often prohibitively expensive.

Johnson & Johnson said that when it gave study participants a second jab after six months, their antibody levels were nine times higher than they were 28 days after a first dose of the COVID vaccine.

Sheriff Calvin Hayden said one inmate initially tested positive and then 7 others in the same cell also tested positive at the New Century Adult Detention Center outside Gardner.