Author: Ken Duenke

Photo by David KilperDaniel Giammar says the pricey bottled water that some value so highly might well be nothing more than repackaged tap water.”Any differences between tap and bottled water, in terms of health, are negligible,” says Daniel Giammar, assistant professor of civil engineering.

No study “has convincingly established that the time of death can be postponed through force of will or hastened by loss of the desire to live.”

The findings may help clinicians better understand how otherwise harmless viruses can cause severe disease among some patients.

SOFTBALL: Swary, Kressel recognized First baseman Liz Swary earned Academic All-American honors for the second consecutive year. She was named to the first-team of the 2004 College Sports Information Directors of America’s Academic All-America College Division Softball Team. Also, third baseman Jamie Kressel was named to the 2004 Jewish Sports Review College Softball All-America Team. […]

Photo by Bob BostonThe radio station known as “The River” held a benefit event for the nonprofit Children’s Miracle Network; more than $650,000 was raised.

With a nod to the Oct. 8 presidential debate to be held at WUSTL, several Assembly Series speakers will have a politically related or election-oriented focus.

Franklin, 49; Davis, 47; Koch, 67

“This isn’t the answer to everything in terms of finding these links, but it’s an important breakthrough,” says senior investigator Howard McLeod.

The aim is to help the University community fully understand all sides of some of the key political issues.

People who are enrolled in Medicare Choice HMO plans with drug coverage die at about the same rate as those in traditional fee-for-service Medicare plans, but mortality rates for those in Medicare HMO plans without drug coverage are substantially higher. That’s the conclusion of a recent study done by Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ph.D., an assistant professor of economics at the Olin School of Business of Washington University in St. Louis, with University of Minnesota colleague Robert J. Town. The researchers’ estimates imply that a 10-percentage point shift in coverage from fee-for-service to HMO plans without drug coverage could result in 51,000 additional deaths per year among the elderly.