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Rebecca Smith/KBIADr. Doug Burgess the medical director of Addiction Services at University Health in Kansas City and teaches psychiatry at UMKC. He spoke about how he got into the field of addiction psychiatry and about some of the misconceptions people — including himself at one point — have about those with substance use disorders. -
Rebecca Smith/KBIAAccording to research from the Urban Resource Institute, more than a third of domestic violence survivors report their abusers threatened to harm or kill a family pet — leaving survivors in a fraught situation: escape their abuser or stay to protect the pet?
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According to the latest data from Feeding America, nearly one million Missourians faced food insecurity in 2024. But a program in Missouri is working to fight food insecurity by bringing locally raised pork to Missourians' plates. -
Laveta Lockridge and Job Green work at the Lincoln University Extension office in Caruthersville. This year, they started a community garden as a way to educate folks on nutrition, as well as provide them with free, fresh produce in an area where that can be hard to get. -
Researchers examined 202 monitoring locations across Missouri and found potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria at 171 locations, or 85% of the sites, on at least one day of testing. -
A recent analysis by ValuePenguin found the estimated number of pickleball-related injuries treated in U.S. emergency rooms nearly quadrupled between 2018 and 2025, with falls, slips and trips accounting for nearly 65,000 ER visits nationwide. -
Missouri blood centers say they have not reached the point of issuing an emergency appeal yet but are watching closely -
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. -
Dr. Ashley Popejoy is a spokesperson for the American Dental Association and a pediatric dentist in Southwest Missouri. She spoke about the many oral health complications that can come from cancer treatment and how a medical team can help. -
Earlier this year, the American Heart Association updated their guidelines for cholesterol testing to include screening for lipoprotein(a) at least once in an adult’s life. -
In Missouri, nearly 600 people have fallen ill after fresh produce products identified as potential sources in the outbreak reached grocery store shelves across the state. -
For the past several days, parts of Missouri have been under an extreme heat warning with high temperatures and heat indexes well above 100 degrees.
