The FDA recently approved a drug the Washington University School of Medicine has been testing for years. We discuss the results of a clinical trial about the effective drug treating lung cancer caused by a genetic mutation.
Published June 10, 2021 at 4:15 PM CDT Listen • 17:06
Former St. Louis police officers Christopher Myers, left, and Dustin Boone.
A federal trial underway in downtown St. Louis will determine the fate of two former police officers accused of beating a Black detective who was working undercover at a protest in 2017. And for the second time, all of the jurors empaneled to hear the case are white.
Earlier this year, a jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision in the case of former officers Dustin Boone and Christopher Myers, while acquitting a third officer. Prosecutors are now trying Boone and Myers again. Both white men, Boone again faces a count of deprivation of rights under color of law, and Myers is charged with destruction of evidence.
Retails stores would be prohibited from selling cats and dogs. That and a host of other animal welfare bills await Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signature. Listen to the discussion from St. Louis on the Air.
Over the past two years, an area of Forest Park the size of more than 15 football fields has been transformed into the Anne O’C. Albrecht Nature Playscape. It opened to the public earlier this week, sporting a colorful range of native and diverse plant species and curiosity-sparking play elements made out of everything from limestone to willow branches.
The cost of prescription medication has skyrocketed in the U.S.
Why did the price of an EpiPen soar to nearly $700 last year? Why has insulin grown so expensive that some diabetics are forced to ration its use? And why do Americans pay more for medicine than anywhere else in the world when, just about two decades ago, our costs were middling compared to other nations?
Those questions, and more, are the focus of Michael Kinch and Lori Weiman’s new book, “
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A vice chancellor at Washington University and the author of previous, well-reviewed books on vaccinations and innovations in cancer treatment, Kinch explained on Thursday’s