Pediatrics

The rise in cases at Seton Regional Catholic School comes during what has been an otherwise mild flu season.

Baer Pediatrics, which has a policy of ordering tests for all patients who have persistent coughing, has reported nine out of 10 of the county’s logged whooping cough cases in the past two months.

Reported cases of the infectious disease have surpassed pre-pandemic levels in Missouri.

For kids in the hospital, back-to-school season may look a little different. At Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital in Maryland Heights, pediatric patients staying for weeks or months learn from special teachers and programs.

Washington University officials recently sought to clarify that it would continue some services after a former caseworker at the center said that the pediatric center would close.

Missouri has removed roughly 136,000 kids from its Medicaid rolls since June 2023. But the state's worst-in-nation processing delays make it difficult to re-enroll — causing many to miss doctor’s appointments and critical prescriptions.

Depending on how close one is to the blasts and how powerful the explosions are, fireworks can be as loud as 150 decibels. That’s as loud as a jet plane taking off or a close-range gunshot.

St. Louis Children’s Hospital ad KVC Missouri officials say the 70-bed pediatric mental health hospital will address growing mental health needs in kids.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force is calling on older people and pregnant women in the region to get the newly approved RSV vaccine as hospitals fill up with people sick with respiratory illnesses.

Infant mortality in Missouri went up 16% between 2021 and 2022, according to federal data released earlier this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Missouri was one of only four states that showed a significant rise.