Heart & Vascular News

Toni Brookhouse needed to have a healthy kidney removed because of complications from a previous surgery. Rather than discard a healthy organ, she chose to donate it to a complete stranger in Maryland.

Siteman Cancer Center patients "ring bell" to mark end of cancer treatment.

Barbara Monsees, MD, chief of breast imaging at Siteman Cancer Center, on the current breast screening controversy

New breast cancer screening recommendations are raising many questions for women, with some physicians concerned it will lead to fewer women screened annually.

Cardiac Surgeon Dr. Jennifer Lawton at Barnes Jewish Hospital is a proponent of the off pump method and says it works for her patients: 'There's a lower blood transfusion rate with off-pump surgery, and the patients are discharged approximately one day sooner."