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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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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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What is Secondary Infertility?

Think of the word “infertility,” and you might picture a couple without children struggling to get pregnant or stay pregnant. But there is another set of people — those who have successfully conceived and given birth to one or more children — who struggle with infertility, too.

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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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BJC Hospitals Caring for Newborns Earn Safe Sleep Designation

The statistics are devastating: Sudden unexpected infant death is the No. 1 cause of death in babies age 29 days to 1 year old.

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Benefits to Staying Heart Healthy by Using a Fitness Tracker

Exercise is good for your heart and offers many benefits, but do you really know how much physical activity you are getting? If not, then try a fitness tracker.