Missouri Will Not Expand Medicaid Despite Voters Wishes, Governor Says
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, at this year s State of the State address in Jefferson City, Mo., when he declared he would uphold the will of the voters in expanding Medicaid. He reversed course on Thursday.
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The battle over Medicaid expansion in Missouri reached a new boiling point Thursday as Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, announced that the state will not implement expansion, in defiance of a ballot measure passed by voters last year.
The decision stems from Republican state lawmakers refusal to appropriate funds for the expansion to the state s Medicaid program, called MO HealthNet, in the state budget bill passed last week.
St. Louis construction innovator Fred S. Kummer, founder of HBE Corp., dead at 92
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Fred S. Kummer, a Missouri University of Science and Technology graduate who grew his one-man general-contracting business into the world’s largest design-build firm for health care and financial facilities, died Friday, April 30, 2021, in St. Louis. He was 92.
Starting in the basement of his home, Mr. Kummer opened a nursing home construction business in 1960. But he quickly realized that clients would benefit from an innovative approach that would integrate all phases of building – from planning and cost estimating to architectural, engineering and construction services. That insight enabled him to grow his Hospital Building Equipment Co., later called HBE Corp., into the world’s leading design-build firm for medical and financial facilities, with a construction portfolio of more than 1,100 health care facilities.
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Study uses eel-like protein to control brain ANI | Updated: May 12, 2021 16:20 IST
Washington [US], May 12 (ANI): During a recent study, researchers looking to help people suffering from addiction, depression, and pain studied how certain brain neurons operate to see if they can be controlled.
In a paper published in the journal Neuron, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis, along with several other universities, successfully used a protein called parapinopsin to turn off brain circuits.
This protein is found in lamprey - an ancient lineage of jawless fish similar to eel. Researchers said the ability to inhibit neurons could eventually lead to turning off mood disorders and unwanted behaviors like depression and addiction.
One in every 1,000 Black men can expect to be killed by law enforcement, which is one of their leading causes of death, according to another Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study.