WEST PLAINS, Missouri, May 18 -- Missouri State University's West Plains Campus issued the following news release: Two members of the Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) were recognized as members of PTK's 2024 Missouri All-Academic Team during a ceremony April 11 at Stephens College in Columbia. Hannah Smith, Alton, and Brittney Fears, Winona, were among 50 students selected from various community colleges in the state for the award. Both received c  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, May 18 -- The Democratic Party of Missouri issued the following news: The Missouri Democratic Party sincerely thanks our Senate Democrats for standing strong for over 50 hours to successfully block the Missouri GOP's attempt to make it harder for voters to bypass a dysfunctional legislature and take direct action. Extremist Republicans in the Missouri State Senate spent the entirety of this legislative session fighting to make it harder for voters to hold their elected  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, May 18 -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services issued the following news release: This week, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) transferred $15,229,302 in funds generated by Missouri's adult use marijuana program to agencies as outlined in Article XIV, Section 2, of the Missouri Constitution. Recipient agencies of adult use program funds include the following: * Missouri Veterans Commission ($5,076,434): for use exclusively f  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, May 18 (TNSres) -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release: Roughly one in five cancer patients benefits from immunotherapy - a treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer. Such an approach to beating cancer has seen significant success in lung cancer and melanoma, among others. Optimistic about its potential, researchers are exploring strategies to improve immunotherapy for cancers that don't respond well to t  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, May 18 (TNSres) -- The Washington University St. Louis School of Medicine issued the following news release: The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but the virus that caused it is still here, sending thousands of people to the hospital each week and spinning off new variants with depressing regularity. The virus's exceptional ability to change and evade immune defenses has led the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend annual updates to COVID-19 vaccines. But some scientists  more