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Now starting his freshman year at Missouri Western University on a football scholarship, Jaylen Parks is grateful to Rockhill Orthopaedic Specialists for helping him get back on the field.

While the CPAP machine is the most effective way to treat sleep apnea, some patients, like veteran David Cotter, can’t tolerate the mask that users have to wear at night.

Almost 30 years after his life-saving kidney transplant at Saint Luke's, Chris Paxton continues to express gratitude and raise awareness for organ donation through his participation in the Transplant Games of America.

Matthew Wilkinson, MD, a surgeon with Saint Luke’s kidney and liver transplant program, and Erica Sparks, a transplant coordinator with Saint Luke's, discuss the transplant process and importance of organ donation.

FOX4 talked an athletic trainer at Rockhill Orthopaedic Specialists about the health benefits of cold plunging and tips for getting started.

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

Matt Dickhut jokes he’s never won the Powerball, despite decades of trying his hand. But he did win the lottery. Instead of a big check, his winnings came in the form of a new liver.

“Physicians see all kinds of inequities in medical care and it’s heartbreaking. But we can take care of some of those things." —John Helzberg, MD

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.

As Sallie Wickens boarded the LifeFlight helicopter in Climax Springs, Missouri, in June 2012, she had no idea it would be the last leg of a journey that started when she was 5 years old.