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04/02/2026

11/10/2025

Another AHA is n the books, but this one with Ghadir Mahmoud presenting our data on the Evoque TTVR.

10/09/2025

How far we have fallen.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

09/22/2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/health/cycling-lower-dementia-risk-study-wellness?cid=ios_app

Cycling instead of driving has been linked with a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, a large study has found.

06/02/2025

Ernst has proposed cutting Medicare and Medicaid, particularly for undocumented immigrants. It is likely she is aware that this population may require medical attention at some point, and without access to covered primary care, they will necessitate emergency room care. Since it is illegal (and unethical) to deny critically ill patients treatment due to lack of insurance, the costs will be shifted to those with health insurance, or else the hospital may be forced to close. In Missouri, 9-10 hospitals have shut down since 2020.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is facing backlash after saying “we all are going to die” while talking about potential changes to Medicaid eligibility at a town hall in north-central Iowa.

05/31/2025

When will this chaos subside? Appreciate Dr. Spencer’s comments.

05/19/2025

Go Kardia!!

Oklahoma cardiologist Dr. TJ Trad was fast asleep on his flight from Uganda last month when a member of his team woke him up to say someone needed a doctor.

03/29/2025

Might argue with standings, but MBMC made the list!!

Newsweek magazine recently named three area hospitals to its annual list of World’s Best Hospitals for 2025, ranking them among the top 200 globally. Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis was

02/27/2025

Looking forward to our Annual STEMI Symposium this Friday at the Doubletree Hotel in Chesterfield. I’ve been putting on this educational symposium since 2009, but couldn’t do it without the incredible team at Missouri Baptist Medical Center.

The symposium is one week away! The Missouri Baptist Heart Center Symposium: Unstable STEMI Patient is next Friday, February 28 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Chesterfield, MO. Designed for cardiologists, emergency department physicians, primary care physicians, hospitalists, frontline and urg...

02/07/2025

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”

The Lancet response: https://hubs.li/Q035NjtP0

04/09/2024