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According to the Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation, one of every two women in the United States over age 50 will experience a bone fracture caused by osteoporosis. This condition, affecting roughly 54 million Americans, occurs when bones lose density and strength, becoming thinner, weaker, and more fragile.

When you give to the Barnes-Jewish St. Peters & Progress West Foundation, you help us hold community health events to support preventive care and wellness.

When Paige’s water broke at 37 weeks pregnant, she was ready to meet her baby. It was a markedly different feeling from earlier in her pregnancy, when, at 25 weeks gestation, Paige underwent a surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital to repair a defect in her baby’s spine.

How go the New Year’s resolutions? Unfortunately, most people who make a New Year’s resolution fail to keep it. Vague goals of “getting healthy” typically go by the wayside before the end of January. Instead, stick with specific targets that are realistic and achievable.

If you have a wound that’s not healing, you don’t have to simply live with it. There are treatment options that can help you.

With clinicians’ commitment to innovative care, the Heart Center has become one of only eight programs in the nation to perform this rare, lifesaving procedure.

Debbie Schrader was a young polio patient on isolation at St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1958. At the time, parents were discouraged from staying with children on infectious disease wards.

The handmade sign said, “Colton, I beat cancer” with a photo of St. Louis Blues player Colton Parayko and Ashlynn Wilson, a teenager who recently became cancer free, ice skating together at Enterprise Center.

Shocked by her breast cancer diagnosis, Annie Gottesman considered rejecting lifesaving treatments at every point along the journey.