Midwest

This story was produced by Side Effects Public Media, a news collaborative covering public health.The recent COVID surge was enough to push BJC Healthcare…

Parts of the Midwest have already seen snow, and with this winter weather comes an added layer of challenges for battling COVID-19. Whitney Selix and her…

Now that summer is over and temperatures are dipping across the Midwest, people are headed indoors, some experts fear the already striking rise in cases…

¿Qué Pasa, Midwest? is a bilingual podcast for midwestern Latinx who are missing an essential piece of their cultural identity. By sharing their stories,…

Four Midwestern states have infant mortality rates “significantly higher” than the U.S. average, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control…

Across the Midwest, health care has emerged as one of the year’s biggest campaign flash points — in races from U.S. Senate to state attorney general.In…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t know why young children across the country are coming down with a rare condition called Acute…

When Matthew Timion needed to get his son treatment for mental illness, he did not anticipate it would be so hard to get the insurance company to pay for…

Every day, Amanda Moller scoops powdered formula out of a can and shakes it up with water from her kitchen sink in University City, Missouri, a suburb of…

Jenn Glaser lay in bed with a severe pain in her right hip. In the last few days a large abscess had developed under her skin--an infection from injecting…