Meg Cunningham
Statehouse Reporter at The Kansas City Beacon
Rural health, formerly state gov for @thebeaconKC. Once national politics/ elections/voting @ABC
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1 week ago |
newstribune.com | Meg Cunningham
After years of exponential growth, opioid overdose deaths in Missouri are dropping. While health care workers, community groups and other officials say many factors may contribute to the drop in opioid overdose deaths, they agree that access to overdose-reversing drugs like naloxone, often provided under the brand name Narcan, is saving lives. "I do think that Narcan is the reason for those trends statistically dropping," said Cooper County Ambulance Chief Brandon Hicks.
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1 week ago |
thebeaconnews.org | Meg Cunningham
After years of exponential growth, opioid overdose deaths in Missouri are dropping. While health care workers, community groups and other officials say many factors may contribute to the drop in opioid overdose deaths, they agree that access to overdose-reversing drugs like naloxone, often provided under the brand name Narcan, is saving lives. “I do think that Narcan is the reason for those trends statistically dropping,” said Cooper County Ambulance Chief Brandon Hicks.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Meg Cunningham
This article was originally published in The Beacon. In 2020 and 2021, the COVID pandemic exposed weaknesses in the United States’ supply chain for key items in American households. The Biden administration spent millions of dollars through the U.S. Department of Agriculture on new programs that helped farmers sell their produce to local schools, create produce boxes for households and provide more direct food access to their communities.
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3 weeks ago |
kansascity.com | Meg Cunningham
Editor's Note: This story was originally published by The Beacon, a nonprofit news organization serving Missouri and Kansas. The Star is republishing up to two stories a week as part of a new partnership with The Beacon. Communities across the country are suffering from a lack of primary care providers, and Missouri is no exception. In fact, it ranks fourth worst nationwide in terms of its primary care provider shortage. All but seven Missouri counties have shortages of primary care providers.
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3 weeks ago |
thebeaconnews.org | Meg Cunningham
Throughout the summer of 2024, six people in prison at Missouri’s Algoa Correctional Center experienced temperatures and humidity levels that violated their constitutional rights, a new lawsuit alleges.
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