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Health and Human Services Sector

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Express Scripts Inc to Add New Building to Headquarters

    image via​You know that old saying: When one door closes, another one opens? Well, in this case, when one door opens...you decide to build even more doors to open, we guess.Not only has St. Louis-based pharmaceutical management company Express Scripts Inc. announced its intention to reverse its de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Madison and St. Clair Counties Named "Judicial Hellholes" -- Again

    judicialhellholes.org​The American Tort Reform Association has once again included Madison and St. Clair counties to its annual listing of so-called Judicial Hellholes. St. Clair was named to the list from 2004 through 2007. Madison County has been on the list in all but one year since 2002. St. C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Express Scripts Workers Shout Their Way to Victory

    Kase WickmanBensalem, Penn. workers and union supporters outside Express Scripts, Inc. headquarters August 30.​Last summer, dozens of workers from Express Scripts, Inc's Bensalem, Pennsylvania facility bused to the company's St. Louis headquarters to protest the threat of their branch's closure. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Express Scripts Inc. Blasted in New SEIU Report

    St. Louis-based Express Scripts Inc. is the nation's second largest "pharmacy benefit management company" -- handling an impressive 12 percent of all prescriptions in the United States through mail order and retail drug stores alike.​But the company earlier this year announced plans to close a pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Lt. Gov. Kinder Unconcerned About Impact of Yesterday's Ruling on Health Care Lawsuit

    Kinder: Does this man look worried?​As you may have heard, yesterday a federal judge in Detroit struck down a Michigan lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the federal health care law passed back in March.So, we know what you're thinking now: Will that ruling impact a similar lawsuit t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Express Scripts to Close Infamously Outspoken Bensalem Facility

    Kase Wickman​Remember the irate Bensalem, Penn. Express Scripts workers and SEIU members who road-tripped across the country to the company's St. Louis headquarters? Well, it seems that they're out of luck: Express Scripts has announced plans to close one of the Bensalem facilities, laying of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Angry Express Scripts, Inc. Workers Take Their Case to DC

    Kase WickmanBensalem, Pennsylvania workers and union supporters outside Express Scripts, Inc. headquarters August 30.​Approximately 30 pissed-off Express Scripts, Inc. workers from Bensalem, Penn. are headed to our nation's capital to voice their complaints about their treatment at the hands of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    SEIU Rallies Outside Express Scripts, Inc.'s St. Louis Headquarters

    Kase WickmanProtestors at Monday's rally outside Express Scripts' headquarters near UMSL​ For the last four days, two massive tour buses carrying 50 unionized employees of Express Scripts, Inc.'s Bensalem, Penn. facility have been rolling toward St. Louis. Monday afternoon, they gathered outside t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Artificial Lung Keeps Boy Alive at St. Louis Children's Hospital

    Courtesy St. Louis Children's HospitalOwen Stark uses an artificial lung​A 2-year-old boy from Eldon, Mo. is alive today thanks to a novel use of an artificial lung at St. Louis Children's Hospital. And his treatment may pave the way for other kids to make use of artificial lungs as well. He's the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Hearing in St. Louis Today into Cochran V.A. Hospital and Dirty Dental Equipment

    Carnahan: Says he wants answers to "deeply disturbing" allegations. ​The House Veterans' Affair Committee is holding a hearing today in the Eagleton Courthouse looking into revelations made earlier this month that as many as 1,800 people may have been exposed to hepatitis or HIV from improperly cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Dental Patients at St. Louis VA Hospital Could've Been Exposed to Hepatitis, HIV

    ​Q: What's worse than a trip to the dentist? A: A letter from the dentist telling you that his dirty dental tools may have exposed you to hepatitis or HIV. More than 1,800 veterans received such a letter this week informing them that St. Louis VA Medical Center had not properly cleaned its dental ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    "Adult-Child" Slackers, Fear Not: Mom & Dad Can Now Insure You Up to Age 26 in Missouri

    Image viaDude, I won't be insured on my trip to Thailand!​In an effort to blatantly overachieve and comply early with some imminent federal regulation changes, a bunch of Missouri health insurance companies have already decided to insure "adult children" up to 26 years old, even if they are:  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Missourians to Vote in August to Accept or Reject Federal Health Care Law

    Don't call it childish. Call it politics.​The Missouri House today passed legislation calling for a referendum on the federal health care law signed by the president earlier this year. As St. Louis Public Radio reports, the legislation approved today does not require approval from the governor or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Construction to Resume on Shriners Children's Hospital in CWE

    Construction will finally resume later this year for the new Shriners Hospital for Children in the Central West End a year after the recession put the project on hold, the hospital's board announced on Tuesday. Image sourceAn artist rendering of the new Shriner's Hospital for Children, if it ever g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Viagra Maker Hard On St. Louis; Pfizer Announces It Will Slash 600 Local Jobs

    A pharmaceutical giant's love affair with St. Louis is over, and it seems no amount of drugs and/or chemical enhancements will ever rekindle the flame. Just when you think Pfizer will grow, it shrinks. It happens to lots of companies.​Yesterday, Pfizer (maker of Viagra, Celebrex, Lipitor and count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Münchausen, She Wrote: Mother Convicted of Killing Her Son and Poisoning Her Daughter Receives Pair of Life Sentences

    St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Jack Garvey this morning sent Judy Pickens away for two life sentences in prison, to run consecutively. Garvey also sentenced Pickens to an additional 157 years, to run consecutively after the two life sentences. St. Louis Metropolitan Police DepartmentJudy Pickens' boo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Barnes-Jewish Hospital Makes U.S. News' Honor Roll (Again)

    stlouis.missouri.orgU.S. News & World Report came out yesterday with its annual ranking of the country's best hospitals. Earning high marks (again) was Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The hospital ranked No. 9 this year in the magazine's "Honor Roll" of best hospitals. According to a Barnes-Jewish spoke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Medical School Ethics Policies: How Area Universities Stack Up

    The March 2 New York Times contains a story that smacks down the Harvard Medical School's lax ethics policies when it comes to getting in bed with pharmaceutical companies. Timesman Duff Wilson reports that Harvard students and some faculty members complain that drug companies are exerting undue inf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2008

    Poet Yevtushenko Stops in St. Louis

    Flying well below the radar, Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko appeared Saturday at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital for a reading. Yevtushenko, da? For the unfamiliar, the septuagenarian is famous for attacking Stalin and promoting artistic freedom, meeting world leaders, including Richard Nix ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2008

    The Impulse of the City

    Dance pumps it up

  • Calendar

    April 16, 2008

    Star aTrek

    Dance pumps it up

  • Calendar

    January 2, 2008

    Going Dental

    Dance pumps it up

  • Calendar

    December 5, 2007

    Don't Be Afraid of Change

    Dance pumps it up

  • News

    December 5, 2007

    Drug Free

    Clinics that treat the poor rely on free medical samples, but pharmaceuticals say there's got to be a better way.

  • Music

    August 8, 2007

    Velvet Revolver

    Libertad

  • Calendar

    July 18, 2007

    Big Screen St. Louis

    Libertad

  • Music

    April 4, 2007

    The Whigs

    9 p.m. Friday, April 6. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2006

    Tissue Issue

    9 p.m. Friday, April 6. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

  • Calendar

    September 6, 2006

    Support for the Arts?

    It's in the sauce

  • Calendar

    February 1, 2006

    Before the Super Bowl...

    Please brush and floss

  • Film

    December 10, 2003

    Series/Festivals

    Week of December 10, 2003

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Veterinary Clinic

    Olde Towne Fenton Veterinary Clinic

  • Film

    February 13, 2002

    Snoozie Q.

    Its heart is in the right place, but John Q. is too clumsy to make us care

  • News

    February 13, 2002

    The Gap

    Medicaid's toothless protection for poor kids

  • News

    November 8, 2000

    Hold Those Cheers for the FDA

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

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    Unhealthy Relationship

    John Ashcroft gets a shot in the arm from the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, as well as other lobbying groups opposed to a true Patients' Bill of Rights

  • News

    August 23, 2000

    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.

  • News

    June 7, 2000

    John Ashcroft's Drug Money

    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.

  • News

    December 1, 1999

    THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, PROUD TO BE PART OF THE HOME TEAM

    The Post-Dispatch gives us all the news that's fit to print twice

  • Calendar

    September 15, 1999

    PATHOLOGY REPORT

    A new film documents the proud history and sad end of Homer G. Phillips Hospital

  • News

    April 14, 1999

    Imagine St. Louis: The Post selling its soul for a jolly good fellowship

    A new film documents the proud history and sad end of Homer G. Phillips Hospital

  • News

    December 23, 1998

    The Doctor is Out

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

  • News

    December 16, 1998

    Airworthy

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

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