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The move marks the second time that state public health officials have broken away from guidance under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

The federal lawmakers would like the agency to look into Veolia's incinerator in Sauget. The CDC previously completed an air pollution investigation in May, which suggested the EPA should monitor air quality and conduct soil testing.

Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order in response to shakeups at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An estimated 878 people live within a 1-mile radius of the 35-acre Veolia North America-Trade Waste Incineration facility in the Metro East. The closest residential areas are about half a mile southeast of the facility in Cahokia Heights.

As Cahokia Heights residents found themselves continuously sick with respiratory conditions, heart problems, and bacterial infections they had one question — where were the health officials?

You may have heard the ticks are bad this year due to the mild winter or ticks are getting worse in Missouri, but what’s the reality of these claims?

More people are dying than being born in Missouri — what experts refer to as a “demographic winter.” St. Louis University professor Ness Sandoval explains where we are and what it will take to reverse course.

The study's findings build on prior evidence that in-person learning is safe and does not contribute to COVID-19 outbreaks when schools implement safety measures.

Even many symptomatic patients and exposed health workers who are able to get a COVID-19 test must wait nearly a week to get results. Others get results in hours. Here's why it varies so much.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will investigate whether a waste incinerator is poisoning people in Sauget.A federal agency within the CDC…