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Finding Her Voice: The Children’s SPOT Helps Young Girl Turn Silence Into Strength
Janette Platter is the community chaplain at Saint Luke’s Bishop Spencer Place, a vibrant senior living community just steps from the Country Club Plaza. But in early 2025, she was just another mom seeking the very best care for her child. Fortunately, she knew it wasn’t too far away.
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From Fragile Beginnings: How The Children’s SPOT Helped a NICU Baby Thrive
Kirsti Millar, a 35-year-old of Kansas City, was 23 weeks pregnant with her second child in early 2023 when her water suddenly broke. What should have been a season of joy and anticipation became a medical emergency.
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KCTV: The Importance of Lung Cancer Screenings with Saint Luke’s
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related death in the United States—and diagnosing the disease early is critical in improving survival rates.
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KCTV: Saint Luke’s Patient Avoids Third Open Heart Surgery Thanks to Minimally Invasive Procedure
Born with congenital heart disease, 41-year-old Christin Murphy has undergone three heart surgeries to repair pulmonary valves. They have been tough to get through, but Murphy says this latest one at Saint Luke’s changed her outlook.
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"Grateful and Humbled": The Back-to-Back Transplants at Saint Luke's that Saved One Man's Life
Anthony Weatherspoon, 68, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, remembers it like it was yesterday: The day he wasn’t feeling very well in 2024. “I didn’t know what was up,” Anthony says, with his wife, Peggy, at his side.
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KSHB: New Cancer Treatment at Saint Luke’s Extends Kansas Woman’s Life Expectancy
Alexis Ellington has a renewed outlook on life after being the first Saint Luke's patient to receive a new cancer treatment called Bispecific T-cell Engagers therapy, or BiTE.
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BBC News: Studies Reveal New Effects of Semaglutide
BBC News talked to Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod about new findings on the cardiovascular effects of semaglutide.
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American Journal of Managed Care: Semaglutide Enhances Heart Failure Outcomes in Obesity
A new subanalysis presented by Dr. Mikhail Kosiborod shows benefits of semaglutide in patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Healio: Treatment Effect of Bystander CPR Varies by Race, Sex
On average, survival benefits of CPR for cardiac arrest could be three times as high for white adults compared to Black adults and twice as high for men compared to women.
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Cardiovascular Business: Semaglutide Improves Heart Failure Symptoms in Both Sexes—Weight Loss Greater in Women
Semaglutide improves symptoms in both men and women who present with heart failure. When it comes to weight loss, however, the drug appears to benefit women much more than men.