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To combat rising maternal mortality, researchers at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and UMKC are leading a first of its kind study to create better care for moms with heart conditions during pregnancy.

Retired middle school teacher Teresa Janvrin faced her biggest challenge yet when a nonmalignant spinal cord tumor left her unable to walk in 2023.

The four-year observational study will research U.S. pregnant people with cardiovascular disease to better understand and combat maternal mortality and morbidity.

Dr. Matthew Wilkinson, a transplant surgeon at Saint Luke’s talks about the advances in organ donation and the importance of living organ donation.

In the past, many women born with a heart condition were told they would not be able to birth children safely.

More than 100,000 people are on the wait list for a life-saving transplant—and more than 85% of those can be helped by a living donor.

Emery Stone was in total kidney failure. And that’s when everything changed. Not only for Emery, but for the entire Stone family.