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Saint Luke's is taking action to help reduce gun-related injuries and deaths by handing out free gun safety locks at 22 convenient care and primary care locations.

Firearms have the power to change lives in an instant. Edward Overstreet carries that truth with him every day.

The care a person receives immediately following abuse or assault has a significant effect on their physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.

For National Trauma Survivors Day, Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City honored local trauma survivors and their trauma team by hosting an event allowing everyone to reunite.

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

This year, Michelle almost skipped her preventive screening, but instead of skipping, she chose to get her first 3D mammogram. And like many women, she wasn’t aware that it was now covered by insurance.

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.

Mindy, a teacher in Blue Springs, has a family history of breast cancer, so it wasn’t a surprise when her doctor recommended she start annual mammograms at the age of 35.

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.