Health

As Kansas City removes thousands of old, damaged trees every year, the Department of Parks and Recreation is working with various groups to plant new ones.

Billy Jivetti founded Pathways Africa to promote health care in his home region of rural western Kenya, and he is building a hospital through a donation from a Columbia resident.

Sharon Kinden of Columbia kept her promise to donate an inheritance from an uncle to Pathways Africa, a nonprofit organization started by Billy Jivetti, an MU doctoral student in rural sociology. He started the organization to bring health care to his rural village in Kenya. Now, with Kinden's help, the Fellbaum Community Health Centre Emmaus is under construction.

The survey, conducted by Massachusetts researchers and published in Health Affairs, found more than half of doctors admitted to describing a patient's prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy.

The event will be observed with events promoting education, awareness and HIV testing. Student groups and Rain-Central Missouri are offering free testing, information, a speaker and a vigil.

The measure would allow lawmakers or voters to decide if health insurance exchanges should be operated by the state or the federal government.

Although no illnesses have been reported, the hard-cooked eggs could be contaminated with a strain of listeria.  This strain has the potential to cause serious infections.

The breast cancer charity has been accused of succumbing to the pressure of anti-abortion groups who openly criticize the services of Planned Parenthood.

David Oliver, a gerontologist at the MU School of Medicine, was diagnosed with a form of throat cancer and is chronicling his journey as a cancer patient through online videos and blogs.

Frederick vom Saal, a biology professor and researcher, is among a group of scientists working to influence public opinion about a group of chemicals that can be found in many commercial products such as plastics, food cans and many other household products.

"How to Die in Oregon," a documentary about the state's Death with Dignity Act, will be played Monday at the Ragtag Cinema. On Sunday night, Ragtag Cinema posted on its website that the documentary was sold out. 

The program, called HealthTeacher, focuses on nutrition, the dangers of drugs and physical and mental health. 

Recent reactions to the Santorum and Duggar families have brought to light the lack of a standard for mourning a child who never alive in the world.

Kansas and Mid-Missouri Planned Parenthood are scheduled to offer abortion services again, beginning in February.

With the U.S. in the midst of the worse drug shortage in years, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is keeping track of all the drugs that are in short supply.

Features include solar panels that can heat 80 percent of the tower's hot water and an irrigation tank that collects rainwater for plants.  

The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit collected more than $20 million from Medicaid fraud cases in 2011.

Teen moms participated in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey, and the results showed about a third who didn't use birth control did not believe they would become pregnant.

Despite the higher risk for a heart patient to have problems, there's no evidence that they have more sex-related heart attacks than people without cardiac disease.