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Every October, the world goes pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, though, a Columbia woman hopes people will go beyond cute tee shirts and catchy slogans and decide to take action.

A Columbia man is grateful for the support of family and friends after a crash involving a concrete mixer. See how their prayers and a team of health care providers put him on the road to recovery.

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Some premature babies need the help of life-saving machines in a neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, to provide oxygen that eases the struggle to take their first breaths. However, small, personalized adjustments — to either raise or lower the level of oxygen provided — must be made by hand under the careful attention of nurses and respiratory therapists. Now, a clinical trial will test a new device, designed by a researcher at the University of Missouri College of Engineering, that could make those needed adjustments for premature babies in a NICU — automatically.

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