More than 60% of America’s top jails now hire private companies to deliver inmates’ medical care.
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The federal market, which serves Missouri and 35 other states, opens for 2021 enrollment Nov. 1, with sign-up season ending Dec. 15.
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Dear Dr. Roach • I have read everything I can find on Heberden’s nodes. I have one on the middle finger of my left hand, my writing hand. I ha…
Dear Dr. Roach • My husband had a hemorrhagic stroke in 2014. He is 75 years old. His blood pressure in the past five days has gone from 123/6…
Users can start enrolling in plans for 2021 between Nov. 1, 2020 and Dec. 15, 2020.
Dear Dr. Roach • I’ve been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and prescribed 1,500 mg of metformin. My A1C is now 6.0, although even when it was 5…
Q • Years ago, my mom came to visit — with 18 bottles of pills. During the visit, her health deteriorated, and I persuaded her to give me a li…
Dear Dr. Roach • I am a 64-year-old woman with a family history of heart disease. Both of my parents had heart attacks and open-heart surgery.…
Under the old rules, Medicaid in Missouri did not cover most adults without children because the income threshold is among the lowest in the nation.
Dear Dr. Roach • My left thumb has been “clicking” and locking in position for the past five months. Moving it from one position (straight) to…
The city leads the nation in rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis
Dear Dr. Roach • Back in late 2014, I noticed a dampness in my underwear — no coloration, only dampness. I consulted a gastroenterologist abou…
Blacks are twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s than whites, and scientists are unsure why.
The source is likely naturally-occurring radioactive material brought up to the surface in drilling waste fluids during fracking, a process th…
Dear Dr. Roach • In a recent column, you wrote that migraine of any kind starting in a person’s 60s is uncommon. I am a 66-year-old male in re…
Some local and state health departments have been scrambling to properly trace contacts and assign cases across state and county lines.
State health officials said Sunday that a "database extract error" on Saturday caused an "incorrect inflation in the number of reported cases."
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Dear Dr. Roach • I am a male, 67, and I have difficulties urinating during the night. I get up three or four times from bed to do so, and the …
Missouri women are finding ways around the restrictions, however, by using smartphones and out-of-state addresses.
The state becomes the first to fully fund a program of this nature.
Many Americans don’t know much about osteopathic doctors, if they know the term at all.
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Dear Dr. Roach • What can you tell me about cancer of the penis? I can’t seem to find information. — S.S.
Dear Dr. Roach • My 90-year-old father has been diagnosed with breast cancer. His doctor is recommending mastectomy, after which time they wil…
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