Human Health

Do You Know Missouri’s Joplin Region?

When you ask most people to think of Joplin, Missouri, many think of the devastating tornado that ravaged the region just over five years ago, and the images of the businesses ... Read More

Missouri’s Cortex Innovation Community Is Bringing The Jobs Of Tomorrow, Today

Have you heard about Missouri’s Cortex Innovation Community? Chances are if you live outside of St. Louis the innovation center, located in the city’s Central West End, and its coming expansion ... Read More

Brookings: Missouri in Top 10 for Advanced Industry Growth

A report released last week by the Brookings Institution tracked the growth of advanced manufacturing industries across the US, and discovered that Missouri was in the top 10 for both output and jobs. ... Read More

Gov. Jay Nixon Tours the BioGenerator Accelerator Labs

Governor Jay Nixon along with executives from area bioscience companies toured the BioGenerator Accelerator Labs in the Cortex Innovation District to celebrate Missouri’s leadership in new business creation. The BioGenerator Accelerator ... Read More

Missouri Innovation On Display In World’s First Virtual Care Center

Have you ever been sitting at home and feeling unwell but not sure if you should go to the hospital? Have you ever been in the hospital and needed a specialist ... Read More

Missouri Health Services Companies Are Growing, Creating New Jobs, Serving More Customers

Missouri-based Centene Corporation and Cerner Corp. are seeing tremendous success and are demonstrating the limitless potential of health services companies in Missouri. Cutting-edge medical care and research is taking place across ... Read More

Centene Expands, Opens New Service Center in Ferguson

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon attended the opening and thanked the leadership of Centene “for not only transforming the health of our communities through the work that will be done here, but also ... Read More

AAIPharma/CML creating 30 new jobs in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, MO—The Missouri Department of Economic Development today announced that AAIPharma Services Corp. / Cambridge Major Laboratories, Inc., (AAI/CML) will invest $10.7 million in area operations to move its St. ... Read More

Wash U part of $240 million effort to map 200,000 genomes for clues to common diseases

The federal government is funding a monumental project to map 200,000 human genomes in an effort to understand the genetic causes of common diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, epilepsy and ... Read More

Radioactive isotopes business moves forward with plans to locate in Columbia

How many people does it take to produce two milk jug-size bottles of radioactive isotopes? A company called Northwest Medical Isotopes thinks it will take between 75 and 85 employees to produce ... Read More