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Former NICU Patient Finds New Path as Radiology Student

Cali Horton, a 21-year-old student from Blue Springs, was a survivor from day one.

Her mother, Heather Horton, was pregnant with twins and diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome—uneven blood flow between twins sharing a placenta. Both twins, Cali and her sister Kara, were born prematurely and spent three weeks in Saint Luke’s neonatal intensive care unit.

As a result, Cali suffered from a rare vascular malformation of the brain, which required radiation treatment at age 2. Over time, the treatment fully cured her malformation.

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Health News You Can Use: Perimenopause

Perimenopause is the transition between reproductive age and menopause, which can last several years and affect physical, emotional, mental and social well-being.

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FOX 4: Saint Luke's Physician Shares Insights on Perimenopause During Women's Health Week

Learn more about signs and symptoms of perimenopause, navigating treatment, and how your women's health provider can help in this segment with Bret Gordon, DO, division chair at Saint Luke’s Women’s Health South.

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Lucky Breaks

Caring for the patient at Saint Luke’s Hospital extended to saving the life of a spouse during a Louisiana couple’s fateful trip to Kansas City

Surviving SCAD: Rare Heart Condition Leads Dana to Saint Luke’s

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.