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Landmark study offers solutions to inequality still afflicting St. Louis region

Unequal access to resources still afflicts the St. Louis area, resulting in billions of dollars lost in health-care costs and wages. But a multidisciplinary landmark study called “For the Sake of All,” led by the Brown School’s Jason Purnell, PhD, proposes solutions and urges community members to act.

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MRI for prostate biopsies increases odds of finding aggressive tumors

Prostate biopsies performed using MRI are more likely to find aggressive tumors than those that rely on ultrasound, suggests a new study led by Gerald Andriole, MD, chief of urology at the School of Medicine.

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Raichle awarded Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Marcus E. Raichle, MD, a professor internationally renowned for his contributions to advancing the frontiers of cognitive neuroscience, is one of three scientists awarded this year’s prestigious Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.

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Obituary: Mary Langston Parker, associate professor emeritus of medicine, 89

Mary Langston Parker, MD, a dedicated physician, researcher and director of student health services at Washington University, died Saturday, May 24, 2014, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease. Parker was an associate professor emeritus of preventive medicine and a mother of five.

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Gerald Early remembers Maya Angelou

Noted American essayist and culture critic Gerald L. Early, PhD, has fond remembrances of when he introduced Maya Angelou before one of her three speaking engagements at WUSTL. She delivered talks in Graham Chapel in 1981, 1984 and 1990.

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Commercializing academic discoveries

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4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5

Applied Health Behavior Research open house

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2 p.m. Friday, June 6

IdeaBounce: sports entrepreneurship

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1 p.m. Saturday, June 7

WUSTL Day at Circus Flora

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Announcements

Parking rates to increase

Parking fees for most nonmedical school employees and students will rise this year. Employees are urged to try carpooling, Metro, cycling or another alternative transportation program. Alternative transportation coordinator Andrew Heaslet offers employees personal transportation consultations.

Show your WUSTL pride at PrideFest 2014

WUSTL faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to march in this year’s St. Louis PrideFest Parade at 11 a.m. June 29. WUSTL participants will meet at the parade staging area in Kiener Plaza, at Seventh and Market streets.

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‘Health care for the uninsured: Yes, it’s our problem’

Timothy McBride, PhD, a professor and health economist at the Brown School, writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the impact of the Legislature not expanding Medicaid.

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