Human Health

Missouri Researchers at Washington University Testing Chloroquine in COVID-19 Fight

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, are leading a new trial testing the anti-malaria drug chloroquine on 30,000 frontline healthcare workers to determine whether the drug can prevent COVID-19 ... Read More

Fast-Growing Missouri Company Announces Plans to Add Hundreds of New Jobs in Kansas City

Missouri Governor Mike Parson recently unveiled his ‘Show Me Strong Recovery’ program that focuses on broad economic recovery and job creation for Missourians. Spring Venture Group, a direct-to-consumer distributor of Medicare ... Read More

Missouri’s Health Innovation Talent is Leading the Charge in COVID-19 Fight

Dr. Sarah George, the principal investigator of the remdesivir trial at Saint Louis University, has studied infectious diseases for almost 25 years, and she has seen pandemics before, including HIV, H1N1, ... Read More

University of Missouri Researchers Testing Four Potential Drugs to Treat COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Missouri have found that four antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, a drug originally developed to treat Ebola, are effective in inhibiting the replication of the coronavirus causing ... Read More

Missouri-based Health Innovation Giant Announces Partnership to Expand Access for COVID-19 Testing

Missouri-based Centene Corp., a health innovation company, is teaming up with clinical laboratory Quest Diagnostics to expand COVID-19 testing access in areas of need throughout the U.S. The company plans to ... Read More

Missouri-based Varsity Tutors Amps Up COVID-19 Program with Help from Four Celebrities

Varsity Tutors, an innovative Missouri-based company and the nation’s leading provider of one-on-one instruction, recently launched a free set of online classes for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The free ... Read More

Breakthrough Treatment for COVID-19 Tested in Missouri

A possible breakthrough treatment for the COVID-19 virus is being tested in Missouri. Scientists at Saint Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development say the experimental drug remdesivir could offer life-saving treatment ... Read More

Kansas City Companies Take Advantage of World-Class Talent as Missouri Begins to Reopen

Missouri is open for business. That is the message Missouri is telling the world, as today marks the first day of Governor Mike Parson’s “Show Me Strong Recovery” plan, and businesses ... Read More

Missouri, Google Team Up to Develop “Best Practice” PPE Marketplace

Missouri recently launched a new tool developed in partnership with Google to help health care providers connect with Missouri manufacturers and suppliers of personal protective equipment (PPE). Expanding reserves of PPE ... Read More

Air Force Utilizes Missouri-Made Product in Fight Against COVID-19

The Air Force is training medical professionals to operate its Missouri-made Transport Isolation System (TIS) to safely transport patients with infectious diseases aboard military aircraft during the COVID-19 pandemic. TIS is ... Read More