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Dr. James O'Keefe shares insights on how exercise and social activities can boost physical and mental health and help you live longer.

Chandler DeBolt needed immediate attention but had extremely limited options before his family was referred to the Adult Congenital Heart Disease program at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City.

Carrie Willis, a nurse of nearly 30 years, was on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a nurse manager at Saint Luke’s East Hospital in Lee’s Summit, she oversaw one of the hospital’s COVID units through early 2021.

After years of life-threatening cardiac episodes and chest pain, Cindy Mager, 59, became the first Saint Luke's patient to undergo this innovative, life-saving procedure.

Kansas City is poised to become a national leader in addressing the nation’s maternal health crisis, and there’s a way for you to help or to be treated if you’re pregnant and have a heart condition.

Dr. James O’Keefe and Dr. Andrew Sauer with Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute talk about new research that is changing the way obesity is treated and understood.

A local man with heart failure who was told numerous times he only had months to live gets a second chance at life after treatment at Saint Luke's.

When Debbie O’Neal was diagnosed with heart failure at 75, she feared her life was ending. She was the same age that her mother had been when she died of heart disease.

James O’Keefe, MD, a co-investigator of this study, and director of preventive cardiology at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, talked with KCTV about these new findings.

Dr. James O’Keefe, a co-investigator of this study, explains why GLP-1 medications may be uniquely effective in addressing addictive behaviors like recreational drug use, alcohol consumption, and food cravings.