Under the Microscope
Thursdays at 4:45 p.m.
KBIA's weekly look at science, technology, and health in Missouri and beyond. Find us on iTunes.
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At 17 years old, Daryl Chatman is more interested in football than he is in health insurance.The high school athlete turns 18 this summer. His foster…
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“Alright, we’re going to go check those eyes and ears now buddy. Ok?” Nurse Kristen Marrese leads 4-year-old Daniel Atkinson down the hall for an eye…
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Excited and hungry, three children chant as food is served (“We want potatoes! Potatoes!) and ask what else is for dinner (fish and green beans as it…
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Charles Bassett wants you to buy hamburgers made from his Missouri cows. That’s why the Missouri rancher wants to pay an extra dollar into an…
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Charles Bassett wants you to buy hamburgers made from his Missouri cows. That’s why the Missouri rancher wants to pay an extra dollar into an…
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The click, click, click of a hospital privacy curtain echoes through the room as Jeanna Hibbert pulls it down to be laundered. Hibbert has cleaned rooms…
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Cannabis is beginning to look a lot like a commodity crop.After spending decades in darkened basements and secreted away on small parcels of land,…
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Carla used to get dialysis a couple of times a week at the public hospital in Indianapolis, Eskenazi Hospital. She would sit in a chair for hours as a…
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The normally dry northern region of Argentina has a problem of biblical proportions.Farmers there are struggling with a massive outbreak of locusts. Dark…
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New Access To Federal Funds For Syringe Exchange Is Welcome Support For Rural Areas Facing AddictionGiving away drug paraphernalia seemed counterintuitive to Maupin at first, but she’s learned that it’s essential in fighting the spread of disease among…