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Saint Luke’s Babies Defy the Odds After Rare Genetic Condition
When Aria Larson started working in the operating room at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, she saw excellence all around her. If she needed care, she thought, this was where she would go.
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FOX 4: FDA Removes Warning Label From Hormone Replacement Therapy
Bret Gordon, DO, OB-GYN division chair at Saint Luke's Women's Health South, weighs in on what this means for women.
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KSHB: ‘Have Hope’: Study Shows Immunotherapy Continues To Change Future of Cancer Treatment
While chemotherapy, radiation, and surgeries are common for most cancer treatments, immunotherapy is continuing to allow some patients to forgo these often harsh and invasive methods altogether.
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"Grateful and Humbled": The Back-to-Back Transplants at Saint Luke's that Saved One Man's Life
Anthony Weatherspoon, 68, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, remembers it like it was yesterday: The day he wasn’t feeling very well in 2024. “I didn’t know what was up,” Anthony says, with his wife, Peggy, at his side.
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KMBC: Donate Life Month: Heart and Kidney Recipient Shares His Story
Anthony Weatherspoon, who received lifesaving heart and kidney transplants, is grateful for the gift of life this April.
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KSHB: 'Saint Luke's Saved My Life': Arkansas Man Gets Life-Saving Heart Transplant in Kansas City
"Jill asked, 'If this was your father where would you take him?' And [the doctor] said, 'Saint Luke’s in Kansas City.' And Saint Luke’s saved my life."
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FOX4: Saint Luke's Patient Living with Rare Cancer Starts Foundation to Help Others
More than 10 years after his diagnosis, he’s helping other people with the same rare cancer to hold on to hope.
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FOX4: Saint Luke's and UMKC Leading Nationwide Study on Pregnant People with Heart Conditions
The NIH awarded more than $8.3 million to study 1,000 pregnant individuals with heart conditions in an effort to combat maternal mortality and morbidity.
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Health News You Can Use: Breastfeeding in the NICU
We are talking with Marji Stark, lactation consultant at Saint Luke’s East Hospital, about the breastfeeding journey for mothers who have prematurely given birth to their babies.
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Dos Mundos: Baby of Recently Arrived Immigrant Graduates from NICU
Saint Luke's Hospital celebrated a special graduation after one baby spent 73 days in the NICU.