Author: Ken Duenke

Researchers found that the treatment blocked bone metastases and reduced the development of new tumors in certain organs.

Photo by Bob BostonThe Parkway Hotel has been specifically designed to serve the School of Medicine and Barnes and Children’s hospitals.The staff of the $25 million hotel “has been trained to go out of its way for our visitors,” General Manager April Risk said.

“No studies to date have looked systematically at the psychiatric effects on people who were employed in the towers,” investigator Carol S. North said.

Peanut butter could save the world. If Mark J. Manary, M.D., has his way, that ooey, gooey lunchbox staple might be some kids’ best hope for the future. Manary, associate professor of pediatrics, started a program two years ago that has saved hundreds of starving children in one of the poorest countries in southern Africa. […]

Photo by Bob BostonMichael R. DeBaun shares a smile with Randice Reed, who has sickle cell disease.An $18.5 million NIH grant will fund a study of blood transfusion therapy as a possible treatment for preventing silent strokes.

Rebecca Dresser, an expert on biomedical research law and bioethics and the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses the legal and ethical implications of stem cell research with Mike Sampson of KWMU’s “St. Louis on the Air” Nov. 25. Dresser is also a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Listen to the program from the KWMU Web site.

More than $300 million will be spent to rapidly bring the new knowledge of the human genetic blueprint to the patient’s bedside.

More than $300 million will be spent to rapidly bring the new knowledge of the human genetic blueprint to the patient’s bedside. More about BioMed 21

Photo by Bob BostonJohn F. McDonnell, Larry J. Shapiro, Philip Needleman and Chancellor Mark Wrighton visit at the Nov. 17 news conference announcing BioMed 21.The three-year grant is one of five awarded by the National Human Genome Research Institute to U.S. sequencing centers.

The University is planning a Genome Sciences and Human Genetics Program, a Center for Biological Imaging and a Division of Clinical Sciences.