Primary Care

Dr. Kanika Cunningham for years has worked as a primary care physician at a community health clinic in St. Louis. As St. Louis County's new health director, she wants to bring that experience addressing patients’ medical and other needs to her work.

People in rural areas have more unnecessary hospital visits and are more likely to die from chronic conditions than people in cities because they have…

Low-cost health care centers are lacking in parts of the St. Louis region with the greatest medical need, according to a report from the St. Louis…

Mercy Health has plans to open 10 primary care offices in the south St. Louis metro area over the next two years. That's in addition to the nearly 20…

There were hardly enough supplies to care for the patients who arrived at the Maforki Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone. Health-care workers wore…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 23, 2013 - Dr. Arielle Yang, a Washington University Global Health Scholar and third-year…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 14, 2011 - St. Louis University Medical School is developing a new family medicine residency…