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The use of prescription drugs for ADHD has significantly increased in the past few decades. James O'Keefe, MD studies the link between these medications and cardiovascular events.

Andrew Widman was merely hours old when doctors discovered he had a rare heart defect called transposition of the great arteries.

When Henry Myers needed a heart transplant, he trusted the team at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute. While waiting for a new heart, one goal, in particular, made him persevere.

When Dale Cooksey's mitral valve wasn't sealing normally, doctors at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute performed the MitraClip procedure to get the 98-year-old back to his active lifestyle quickly.

After having a SCAD heart attack, Dana Garrison found a cardiologist at Saint Luke's, who specializes in the condition, and joined a study to help further the understanding of it.

On the day after Andrew Widman returned home from Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City with his new heart, his wife, Vicki, drove him to the DMV. There he ordered a personalized license plate that read simply “745.” It’s a number that’s particularly close to his heart.

Veteran news reporter Dan Verbeck missed the biggest story of his life—his own death.

Three days a week, three hours a day, for 12 years—Jamont Clayton spent roughly 5,616 hours of his life attached to a kidney dialysis machine.

Saint Luke’s Hospital has been certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center by The Joint Commission, becoming only the third hospital in the country to do so.

Saint Luke’s Hospital has been certified as a Comprehensive Cardiac Center by The Joint Commission, becoming only the third hospital in the country to do so.