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Much of the research focuses on mindfulness as a meditative practice. Evidence supports the claims that mindfulness meditation improves emotional regulation, decreases anxiety, enables people to become less reactive and offers greater cognitive flexibility within stressful situations.

With the ups and downs and ongoing uncertainties of COVID-19, many of us are feeling stressed and overwhelmed.

Matt Neil, radiotherapy service engineer on the BJC clinical asset management team.

Now that three COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized for use, questions are circulating about the vaccines’ safety and effectiveness, and if and when those with certain health conditions, such as diabetes, should get vaccinated.

You wake up with a sore throat or sniffles.

If you are pregnant, you likely have questions about COVID-19 and how the virus can affect you, your baby and your childbirth experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic has paused our lives in many ways. But with stroke, every moment counts in the road to recovery. If you suspect you or a loved one is having a stroke, call 911. Learn more about the extra precautions we are taking at our hospitals because your health and safety are our top priorities.

Some sisters imagine what it might be like to have and raise their kids close together. Few, however, get to experience giving birth to their babies on the exact same day, at the same hospital, delivered by the same doctor. It sounds like a fictionalized movie storyline. But for two St. Louis sisters, this was their reality.

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.

“It takes a village to raise old people, too,” says 81-year-old Valura Massey as she sits in her primary care physician’s office in west St. Louis County, her cane close at hand. She’s been dealing with diabetes for many years and recently switched to a new physician, Nathan Moore, MD.