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If you’re concerned about your weight and want to make some changes, your primary care doctor can be a valuable partner in creating a weight-loss plan.

Staying on top of your health care involves more than doctor's visits. Scheduling appointments, calling about a prescription refill, and reading your test results take time, and between work, family, and other responsibilities, sometimes it's hard to squeeze it all in.

How can you be a good friend, family member or partner to someone with MS? We talked to expert providers who care for patients with MS to get some ideas.

Are you sure that your handwashing technique kills germs?? If your answer isn’t a definitive "yes," learn the eight steps of handwashing that will get your hands spotlessly clean every time.

As annoying — and agonizing — as it can be, pain is a common and important signal from your body. It’s a sign that something needs attention, and, once you’ve given it that attention and the pain lessens, its absence is an indication that you’re healing.

“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.

If you are interested in supporting the Foundation with crucial program supplies, please consider a gift of items from our approved list below or contributing an item from one of our Wish Lists.

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View health insurance plans accepted at BJC HealthCare, including Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Medicare Advantage. Verify coverage before your visit.

The goal of the internal medicine residency program is to train future internists in a community setting. The environment will place residents in close contact with leading community internists with training reflecting the daily practice of those physicians. Because Missouri Baptist Medical Center functions at a high level based entirely on the efforts of those who practice there, we are able to create a training program that is education, rather than service, based.