An open letter from Drs Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, MD, MPH, FIDSA and Cunningham in honor of Black Maternal Health Week

Love the quotes Dan Neman got for this story. I can re-live the excitement and novelty of the phenomenon any time by reading it. 🥰

The photo/video team members of St. Louis Post-Dispatch were a tour de force for today’s #Eclipse2024 in MO and southern IL. Photographing people is as much a craft as is celestial photography, executing a timelapse, or editing video. See for yourself here: tinyurl.com/2r9w9fjx

The services can be hard to explain, said LJ Punch, MD (he/they), because there is no other place like it.
'We’re attending to hearts, minds, bodies and souls because that’s what it takes to address the impact of trauma in someone’s life. There really aren’t centers that are set up for this.'

To address the shortage of doctors in Missouri, more than $2 million in state funds will be allocated for the first time to create additional positions for physicians-in-training at hospitals in St. Louis and Columbia.

As more women complain about pain, Planned Parenthood offers sedation for IUD insertion dlvr.it/T53Q78

Missouri provides state funds to train physicians with hopes they will stay dlvr.it/T53Q9p

Conservative candidates defeated across the St. Louis region in sweeping rebuke of right-wing efforts to stack school boards: stltoday.com/news/local/gov…

STL is first on an 11-city tour. “We want to focus on states and localities where we’ve made significant investments,” said HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson. “We think there’s a real opportunity to bring all those grantees together and try to leverage the work we are doing.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has acknowledged that Israeli forces carried out the strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. buff.ly/3VFQGEU

Boone County showing how public health is done, even outside of STL and KC.

This Ramadan is different.

This holy month of self-imposed fasting for Muslims is happening against the backdrop of state-imposed starvation.

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An inclusive story that matches an inclusive city. Thank you Michele Munz St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Today is the day! We're cutting the ribbon at the RxO Community Pharmacy. Thanks to St. Louis Post-Dispatch for covering our partnership with arcamidwest and Refuge and Restoration NPO. stltoday.com/news/local/bus…

NEW: With AI in health care on the rise, eye screenings for diabetic retinopathy are emerging as one of the first proven use cases of AI-based diagnostics in a clinical setting.

Hannah Norman reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/a…

Scene reporter Eli Motycka (Eli Motycka) was arrested by Vanderbilt police while reporting on student protests.