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Monday, Nov. 3, 2025

Top stories

Americans trust their doctors, but doubt the system

The People’s Report Card, released by WashU’s QuEST Center and School of Public Health, grades U.S. health care on quality, cost, confidence and leadership.


Social conflict strong predictor of teen mental health concerns

A new study by WashU researchers showed that family fights and peer bullying outweighed other risk factors for depression and other mental health problems, with adolescent girls suffering more.


Exploring AI, social work and inequality

Eunhye Ahn, an assistant professor at the Brown School, studies how artificial intelligence affects inequality and governance, and how social workers should respond. She is also a researcher with WashU’s new AI for Health Institute.


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WashU in the News

COVID and flu can triple your risk of heart attack


The new york times


Why the ghost tour industry faces a scary future


Fast Company


What would actually lower drug prices in America? Experts weigh in


Tradeoffs


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Campus and community news

Research Wire

Ganesh Chand, at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study why some Alzheimer’s patients experience neuropsychiatric symptoms such as apathy and depression.


Perspectives

‘Trump’s National Guard deployments reignite 200-year-old legal debate over state vs. federal power’

WashU Law’s Andrea Katz writes about how the Bill of Rights and decades of Supreme Court decisions inform modern debates over the balance of federal power and state authority.


the conversation


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