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Barry County Health Corner: Back-to-school immunizations available
Did you know that immunization programs are considered one of the most important public health achievements in the world? Together with clean water and improved access to health care, immunizations have contributed to most countries’ life expectancy.
Barry County Health Corner: What your child’s blood lead test means
The blood lead test tells you how much lead is in your child’s blood.
Barry County Health Corner: Show Me Healthy Women provides for free cancer screenings
Show Me Healthy Women (SMHW) offers free breast and cervical cancer screenings for Missouri women who meet age, income and insurance guidelines.
Barry County Health Corner, Nov. 19
People should get a flu vaccine every year for optimal protection against flu.
Vital ICE app now available to Barry County residents
Barry County residents may now download and sign up for the Vital ICE (In Case of Emergency) app, which may help first responders and hospital staff better assess and treat residents in cases of emergency.
Jordan Troutman: It’s time to take care of each other
I know my family and I are not the only ones in the community being hit with the Cov-Flu-curse. From what I have heard, it hasn’t hit the same for any two people.
Nurse practitioner joins CoxHealth Cassville Clinic
CoxHealth Cassville Clinic is welcoming Shelbi Cockrum, a family nurse practitioner, to its health care team. Cockrum’s journey began at age 4 when she received a toy stethoscope as a gift.
Year-long journey of hope
Karen Waltrip, of Monett, turned 40 years old in February, but she was just 37 years old when her battle with breast cancer began. Breast cancer diagnoses have decline by 0.3 percent per 100,000 women over the age of 20 between 1999 and 2018, according to an statistical analysis by the U.S.
TroutMom Says: ‘I don’t know what choice I would have made – when I had a choice’
One of the major platforms in this 2024 election is a long-time sensitive and hot-button issue with extremely emotional arguments on both sides of the fence — reproductive rights. Since the overturning of Roe v.
Sheila Harris: A license to pollute?
In 1903, my great-grandmother was orphaned at age 10 by the typhoid fever that killed her parents and a sibling, and the hand-dug well on the family’s farm was suspected to be the source of the water-borne bacteria.
