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A new partnership between the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine and the St. Louis Rams will allow fans at the Edward Jones Dome to fight cancer – from their seats at the game.

While prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men, the most common way of screening for the disease is under question from many in the medical community. In looking at the data, physicians at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine recommend patients talk directly with their physician about what’s right for them.

The American Stroke Association recently awarded Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s stroke program its Get With The Guidelines^SM–Stroke (GWTG–Stroke) Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.

Herbert Sheingold had just graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine then the United States entered World War II. He joined the Army and, as a soldier, traveled to New Guinea, Australia and the Philippines.

Steve Steffan focused on the things he could control in life and let go of the things he could not. This outlook brought him through good and bad times. It also helps his family persevere in his absence.

The Barnes-Jewish HLA lab matches bone marrow, stem cell and organ recipieints with a compatible donor.

A highly specialized approach to open heart surgery, a minimally invasive mini-thoracotomy, allows those with mitral heart valve problems to recover faster with less pain and smaller scars.

The bone marrow and stem cell transplant program at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is one of the nation’s oldest and largest programs and recently achieved an important clinical landmark – 5,000 transplants. Physicians performed the milestone transplant July 18.

The Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Heart and Vascular Center is a 2011 recipient of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Mission: Lifeline Silver Award. The award recognizes the success of Barnes-Jewish and their physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine in providing quality care to heart attack patients.

A recommendation by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel could soon lead to approval of transcatheter aortic valve implantation.