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Staying active helps maintain joint flexibility and balance, promotes better posture and strengthens bones.

If you can make one change to mitigate your chances of getting colorectal cancer, it should be this one.

Whether you’re 45 and going for your first screening colonoscopy or having symptoms you’d like to get checked out, you might have questions about what happens during the procedure and how you can prepare.

Learn what happens during a mammogram from BJC HealthCare mammogram-focused radiology technologists, the professionals who perform mammograms every day.

Healthy bones are a critical component of the human body. Proper nutrition, calcium and vitamin D supplements are all excellent ways to improve bone health. Charles Grimshaw, MD, a BJC Medical Group orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine physician at Christian Hospital, says that monitoring for osteoporosis, osteopenia (a condition that occurs when there’s a decrease in bone mineral density) and metabolic deficiencies, like deficiencies in calcium and vitamin D, are proactive approaches for supporting bone health.

Still, there are some myths surrounding mammography. As part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, recognized each October, we reached out to Sadaf Chaudhry, MD, medical director of the Breast HealthCare Center at Missouri Baptist Medical Center, to debunk several of them.

One in every eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.

Too young for colorectal cancer? Think again.

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and while that may not be the first thing that pops to mind in this month of March Madness and the first days of spring, it’s worth paying attention to. Really.