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The diabetes and weight loss drug semaglutide significantly reduced symptoms and improved quality of life in people with obesity and the most common form of heart failure in a clinical trial.

Weight-loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide) and its diabetes-focused cousin, Ozempic, have already upended the treatment of both obesity and diabetes, with sales of both drugs skyrocketing.

Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod presented on the benefits of a cardiometabolic center of excellence for patients with cardiometabolic diseases at the ADA conference in San Diego.

Anderson County Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a department of Anderson County Hospital, was recently awarded a grant from the MFA Oil Foundation to purchase mobile radio communications equipment.

While the hospital’s EMS volunteers do not provide patient-saving care, their presence helps the paramedics and EMT’s who do.

Dr. Sanjaya Gupta, electrophysiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, talks with KCTV about risk factors and new treatment available at Saint Luke's Atrial Fibrillation Clinic.

Growing up next to Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Leah Suttington knew she wanted to be taken to Saint Luke's when she needed emergency heart care.

Through the Havertys' generosity, the Center has been able to create a national model of care called the Cardiometabolic Center Alliance.

Kansas and Missouri are among the worst states in the country for firearm deaths. Of the 50 states, Kansas is fifth-worst in the nation. Missouri is ninth.

A trauma surgeon at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City spoke with KSHB about the trauma team that mobilizes once an ambulance arrives, what has changed over the years in treating trauma victims, and why 'Stop the Bleed' is so important.