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Beating the Odds: A Pastor’s Journey Through Advanced, Lifesaving Heart Care
When Pastor Vic Comstock, 63, arrived at a hospital near his home in Moberly, Missouri, he thought he was battling pneumonia. Vic faced a series of life-threatening complications, including sepsis, respiratory failure, and dehydration.
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Giving While Living: Fast Facts About Living Organ Donors
By renewing our driver’s license at the DMV, most of us are aware of the process of registering to become an organ donor should the worst come to pass. But there is another group of organ donors — living donors.
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How to Make Prepping for a Mammogram a Little Bit Easier
Learn what happens during a mammogram from BJC HealthCare mammogram-focused radiology technologists, the professionals who perform mammograms every day.
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Women’s health: How you can live a healthier life at any age, starting now
It’s no secret that when women are healthy, families and communities thrive. But from menstruation to menopause, women face many distinct — and sometimes complex — health events that require care, understanding and partnership from a health care provider.
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What is a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment?
Watch Summer Chaudhry, MD, medical director of Missouri Baptist Medical Center’s Breast HealthCare Center, talks about breast cancer risk assessments.
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More than a match: How two transplant patients found each other through Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s Transplant Mentor Program
When Carrie Gobble was listed for a lung transplant, she found two matches.
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Memorial Hospital Earns NAPBC Accreditation for the Third Time
Memorial Hospital’s Harold & Dixie LePere Breast Center earns accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers of the American College of Surgeons for the third time.
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Seeing Pink Is a Great Mammogram Reminder
As much as the red of changing leaves and the orange of Halloween pumpkins, pink has become one of the colors of fall.
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Metro East Vascular Access Center
The main goal of the Metro East Dialysis Access Center (DAC) at Memorial Hospital is to provide safe, quick, and effective dialysis interventions.
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‘Crazy twists' and a Special Bond Mark Patient's Transplant Journey
Mitch Reynolds didn’t leave Barnes-Jewish Hospital alone on Feb. 8.