Robert Joiner
Health ReporterRobert Joiner has carved a niche in providing informed reporting about a range of medical issues. He won a Dennis A. Hunt Journalism Award for the Beacon’s "Worlds Apart" series on health-care disparities. His journalism experience includes working at the St. Louis American and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he was a beat reporter, wire editor, editorial writer, columnist, and member of the Washington bureau.
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Part three of threeFor someone who was clueless about what he wanted to do after finishing high school, Luke Stephens has done quite well in life. He’s… -
Part two of a three-part series.Lisa Schofield regards her business as an example of the future of health care in rural Missouri.She owns the Theodosia… -
Part one of a three part series:He woke up in the middle of the night late last year, one hand swollen and the rest of his body was shaking all over.John… -
St. Louis attorney Frankie Muse Freeman helped to set the tone Wednesday when she summed up what it meant to be a young civil rights activist during the… -
Scholars involved in a five-part study that examines the well-being of African Americans in the St. Louis region will seek public feedback on their… -
Experts who study drug trends say the presumed fatal heroin overdose of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman shines the spotlight anew on the need for society to… -
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tried to put a price tag and a face on the government’s health reform push in Missouri when she… -
With her oversize black frame glasses, 9-year-old Diamond Jones projects an image of being a kid who is thoughtful, inclined to study, and who loves… -
Veronica Spencer seems to thrive on speaking to audiences about the heartbreaking story of a great-grandmother who became famous because of her cells.“I… -
Missouri gets generally good marks for disaster preparedness and access to emergency care, but it falls way short in addressing public health needs and… -
Correction: An earlier version of this story used a version of the report that had not been updated. It contained incorrect information about the poverty… -
The centerpiece of the federal government’s war against HIV/AIDS bears the name Ryan White. The public might not remember him without a little context. A…
