Missouri Health News

November 10 - Food scientists at the University of Missouri-Columbia are finally making a healthier ice cream to be used as a functional food (whole food). What the researchers are doing is adding dietary fiber, antioxidants, and probiotics (gut bacteria...

With all different diseases going around these days they come up with a new one every year. But the swine flu takes the cake I hate the flu and now I most definitely hate the swine because it seems deadlier....

People who do not get enough sleep could be at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study released to the media on September 24, 2009. Researchers at Washington University's Department of Neurology in St. Louis, Missouri found...

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The Bullitt County Health Department plans to hold the first of its three scheduled flu vaccination clinics targeted at school children at Bullitt Central High school Tuesday. The clinic, which will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Shepherdsville school�s...

Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan says she is both excited and concerned about House-passed legislation that would overhaul the nation’s health care system. But Carnahan, who is Missouri’s secretary of state, declined to specifically say Tuesday whether she supported the...

Joleen Cahill was sitting at her kitchen table late Thursday night and wondering where her husband was when a military car pulled up outside her house. "I knew immediately what it was about," she said. An officer and a chaplain...