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Missouri lawmakers have passed a nearly $25 billion budget that could force Gov. Jay Nixon to choose between aiding child...
Sam's Club of Joplin donated $1500 to the Joplin Family YMCA today to promote healthy eating. Kim Gray, Development D...
The Joplin Family YMCA is sponsoring Healthy Kids Day on Saturday. They've got a variety of activities scheduled between ...
Mercy Hospital Joplin and the University of Missouri Medical School are re-starting a partnership that lets third year medica...
A program to train University of Missouri medical students as rural health care providers will be unveiled in Joplin Tuesday....
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon continues to campaign for expanding Medicaid coverage. At a rally at the State Capitol Tuesday, N...
When a disaster like the one in Boston strikes, many of us want to help out by donating blood. Chris Pilgrim with Community B...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Carthage Wednesday to continue his push to expand Medicaid. Nixon wants to make another 30...
A Republican-led House committee has approved legislation that would expand Missouri's Medicaid program but not as greatl...
The man accused of plotting to blow up churches in Miami isn't mentally fit to stand trial..at least not now. A judge in ...
Kansas Senators have sent a bill to Governor Sam Brownback that would require residents who receive welfare and unemployment ...
Working the night shift can make it tough for you to sleep. Rick LaTurner, the coordinator of Mercy Hospital Joplin's sle...
No, your eyes weren't playing tricks on you. A giant colon was set up outside of the Macy's at Joplin's Northpark...
Missouri's Republican-led Legislature has repeatedly defeated a plan to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama'...
The Joplin School District is looking into creating a health center for students. The clinic would be either a mobile clinic ...
Three people were taken to the hospital after a fire destroyed a home in Weir late Saturday night. The victims, ages 8, 16, a...
Michelle Obama has visited a Walmart in Springfield to promote her campaign to fight childhood obesity.The first lady made th...
Missouri House Republicans have given a resounding `no' to Democratic plans to expand Medicaid.Two separate House committ...
An Oklahoma Senate committee has approved a bill calling for an investigation into the state's care of people who are eli...
A table carved by a Carthage artist is benefitting two breast cancer groups and the Spiva Center for the Arts. Larry Glaze sp...
A coalition of Oklahoma chambers of commerce this week released an eleven point plan to create more jobs in the state. One pa...
Health officials say synthetic marijuana has been linked to kidney damage in some teens and young adults.Sixteen people who s...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Joplin this afternoon to push his plan to expand Medicaid by making another 300,000 Missou...
Joplin's master developer gave the City Council an update Monday night. David Wallace, with developer Wallace Bajjali, re...
Governor Mary Fallin says she has no plans to revisit her decision to reject an expansion of Medicaid in Oklahoma, saying ins...
Mercy Hospital Joplin has a new chief operating officer. Rodney Haynes joins Mercy from a hospital in Russellville, Arkansas....
Earlier this month, David Wallace with Joplin's master developer Wallace Bajjali said he was going to speak to a college ...
Five cancer survivors have just completed a 12 week program to restore their fitness. The Livestrong program was held at the ...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is proposing a $10 million initiative to boost mental health services to targeted populatio...
Doctors and hospitals around the Four States are being kept busy with what looks like an early start to the flu season. Dr. E...
The Oklahoma Department of Health says the state has recorded its first flu death of the season.The department says the death...
Last night in Pittsburg, the Remember Me Trees were lit at Meadowbrook Mall. The trees are put up every year by the Mount Car...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says federal officials have granted the state permission to overhaul its Medicaid program.The d...
Mucormycosis isn't one of the words in the national spelling bee. It's a mold that affected 13 people in the May 2011...
Governor Jay Nixon says expanding Medicaid eligibility in Missouri is both ``the smart thing'' and ``the right thing ...
The Veterans Memorial at Missouri Southern State University was re-dedicated today. A new plaque honoring military servie mem...
Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg and the Mount Carmel Foundation are getting a grant to provide more concussion testing for ...
Mercy Joplin held an open house and ribbon cutting for their newly-reopened Orthopedic Clinic Wednesday afternoon. Mercy Spok...
The City of Carl Junction's last fundraiser of Breast Cancer Awareness month is tomorrow night. Gary Stubblefield of the ...
People will be putting on roller skates in Carl Junction Saturday night, raising money for breast cancer. Marcus Donhamtells ...
The sixth floor of the Gary and Donna Hall Tower at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin was shown off to Governor Jay Nixon and t...
Mercy Hospital Joplin's MedFlight celebrated its 20th birthday today. MedFlight helicopters transport patients from rural...
An eighth person has pleaded guilty in a Medicaid fraud scheme involving home health care billings in southeast Kansas.Thirty...
Mercy Hospital Joplin held an open house today at its re-opened Breast Center. This replaces the facility lost in the May 201...
Your peanut butter may not be safe. That's the message coming from a recall notice from the FDA today. Trader Joe's P...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Freeman Hospital in Joplin has a new position dedicated to helping cancer patie...
About 100 people attended a weekend rally in Topeka to support legalizing marijuana.Topeka City Councilman Andrew Gray, a Lib...
Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg honored one of its workers today. Amanda Bastian won the Susan Clark Maffei Excellence in R...
The Hope 4 You Breast Cancer Foundation kicked off its annual Pink Ribbon Bagel campaign at Joplin's Panera Bread today. ...
Monday marked a historic day in the history of what's now Mercy Hospital Joplin. Mercy's Angie Saporito tells News Ta...
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has amended a federal lawsuit that challenges the nation's health care overhaul la...
Flu season may not start until October, but local health officials are asking you to get your flu shots now. Laura Hurn of th...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in Joplin Monday to thank a local business for hiring veterans. Able Manufacturing received t...
Crowder College is getting an extra $95,000 for their new nursing program in McDonald County. Spokeswoman Cindy Brown tel...
The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks wants your blood. They have a code yellow alert for O negative blood type, meaning t...
A Pittsburg clinic is getting a much needed shot of growth hormone. The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas has begun...
The new Mercy Hospital Joplin won't be open until 2015, but hospital employees are already getting excited about the desi...
There's going to be a blood drive in Joplin Wednesday in honor of a Joplin High student who's dealing with his second...
There's less than a two day supply of A negative, O negative and O positive blood at the Community Blood Center of the Oz...
Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill continues to stick up for President Obama's health care law. During an appearance in Jo...
The company that owns May's Drug and Drug Warehouse is being purchased by Walgreen's. USA Drug, which has 144 stores ...
If you're trying to beat the heat, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has posted a list of area coolin...
Oxford Health Care in Joplin held a grand re-opening at their new facility at 2318 East 32nd street today, just over 13 month...
A Joplin health care group is reopening tomorrow. Sheryl Fitch, Vice Presidentof Oxford Health Care, tells News Talk KZRG why...
A dental college in Kansas? That's the suggestion from a task force appointed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The task fo...
Blood supplies for the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks are dropping, and that means it's time for some blood drives....
An unusual airplane landed at Joplin Regional Airport Wednesday night. Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics of Kansas Ci...
Kansas health officials say whooping cough is on the rise. As of Monday, 56 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, had been r...
Kansas officials will hold two public hearings this month on the governor's plan to overhaul the state's $2.9 bil...
It's been more than a year since an EF-5 tornado tore through Joplin and Duquesne, and area child therapists are starting...
Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg is going to be making some additions soon, to the tune of $18-million dollars. Spokesma...
A boil water advisory in Cherokee County has been lifted. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has rescinded the b...
A Pittsburg woman who survived a rare, malignant brain tumor is training to run a marathon to support military veterans. Kimb...
An Oklahoma Poison Control Center official says he's seen no increase in calls about children eating miniature laundry de...
The anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug for executions in Missouri. That...
Last year's deadly tornado not only did a number on Joplin and Duquesne, but also stock at area blood banks. Chris Pilgri...
Two Southeast Kansas residents have admitted to Medicaid Fraud. Prosecutors tell News Talk KZRG 21-year old Arron Grow of Alt...
The United Arab Emirates made a big donation to Mercy Hospital Joplin Friday morning. Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba announced a...
If your dog or cat isn't vaccinated against rabies, you'll need to take them to the vet. The Missouri Senate has give...
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will be holding a low-cost spay and neuter clinic in Joplin. Ti...
The Tea Party Express rolled into Joplin Thursday afternoon with its message of electing a new President in 2012. Tea Party E...
The largest Political Action Committee in the Tea Party movement will be in Joplin this evening (May 3rd). Sal Russo, founder...
The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas will receive 4-point-7 million dollars from the Department of Health and Huma...
The Community Clinic in Joplin now has its very own laboratory. Clinic Director Barbara Bilton tells News Talk KZRG the addit...
Too much of anything can be bad for you. That's what health professionals are learning about Mio Energy Drink. You're...
Mercy Hospital Joplin held an open house at its new modular facility Wednesday. The 150,000 square foot building will be Merc...
Mercy Hospital Joplin is getting ready to move. Sunday, they'll transfer operations from their temporary facility to a mo...
Missouri Lawmakers are talking about a plan to give veterans accused of relatively minor crimes an alternative to jail or pri...
