American Medical Association

Missouri Catholic Conference on Anti-Abortion Bill, Rape Victims: "Those Are Difficult Cases"

One of the more controversial proposals at the Missouri legislature this year is a GOP bill that would allow doctors to refuse to perform procedures that "violate his or her conscience or principles." Critics, like Planned Parenthood, say this is "denial of care" legislation that could prevent rape ... More >>

Abortion: Could GOP Bill Prevent Rape Victims From Accessing Emergency Contraception?

A bill that got its first round of approval yesterday in the Missouri House says that anyone providing medical services can't be required to perform procedures that "violate his or her conscience or principles." At the center of this bill is a debate around abortion. But would the proposal block acc ... More >>

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder Plans Federal Lawsuit to Stop Health Care Reform

​Whoa. Just finished watching the video clip of Fox New's Greta Van Sustern interviewing Missouri Lieutenant Peter Kinder this week. And I just got to say, apart from the time the Addams Family met the Munsters on Family Feud, has a more physically unbecoming pairing ever graced a television show? ... More >>

Pot Hole: A southwest Missouri hamlet is leading the latest fight to legalize medical marijuana

Unreal spends time with lovely Swedish...bridge players.

Then, one reader takes the St. Louis Public Library to task, while another brings home a tasty bowl of spicy bull penis.

How Does It Feel?

Recent lawsuits puncture the veil of secrecy surrounding lethal injection

eBay baBay

Unreal meets a Skinker-DeBaliviere resident who's recycling garbage into art. Then we discover something even more shocking than temporary-tattooing a Web site across your pregnant belly: Young adults like to drink on Spring Break!

Big Chill

It's been a warm winter — but not for some Laclede Gas customers

Numb and Number

Legal challenges shed light on Missouri's lethal-injection protocols

Uncomfortably Numb

Lethal injection looks painless and peaceful. On Missouri's death row, appearances can be deceiving.

Standard of Care

When a childbirth went terribly wrong, the blame game began. Dodging responsibility was everybody's first order of business.

Mind Over Matter

For two decades, psychoanalysts have held fast to their slow, deep exploration of the psyche, reaping only scorn from the science-driven psychiatrists at Washington University. Good thing they didn't listen.

Hold Those Cheers for the FDA

The drug we should stop using "immediately" has been questioned for decades

Will the Real John Ashcroft Please Stand Up?

Missouri's junior senator says he is a pro-consumer health-care reformist. But the insurance companies, HMOs and big business, which give him millions, think he's on their side.

The Doctor is Out

Sickened by the shift to managed care, more physicians are claiming disability, moving into administration or leaving medicine altogether