Author: Ken Duenke

After six months, people on the Atkins diet lost an average of 21.2 pounds, vs. 11.5 pounds on conventional diets.

Albright delivers the 142nd Commencement address.She said the Group of Eight summit of world leaders in France is a chance for President Bush to clarify the character, purpose of U.S. leadership.

Peck named Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine

The innovative surgery aims to restore the voice of Amy Hancock, who lost her larynx to cancer more than five years ago.

Amy D. Waterman, Kenneth F. Kelton, Eric Hochman, Liron Kaplan, Zhirong Bao, Tej K. Pandita Sophia E. Hayes, Tetsu Akimoto, Virginia M. Herrmann, Rajnish Kaushik, Jeffrey J. Sich, Rick Martin, Michael Tomasson, Carol North, and Xiaofeng S. Zheng

Concerts are at 7:30 p.m. every Sunday night in July in Brookings Quadrangle.

The new legislation will serve to protect the confidentiality of all patients, regardless of the severity of the injury.

Students in the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences receive a rare honor in Iowa.

MoretonThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted June 2 on the most significant overhaul of media ownership rules in decades, including a change that allows television networks to own more local stations. The new rule loosens the national television network ownership cap — raising the number of viewers the networks can reach to 45 percent from 35 percent of the nation’s viewers. Patrick Moreton, Ph.D., a professor of organization and strategy at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, says that the changes are in a very real sense, a “catch-up exercise,” forced on it by changes in the technology used to produce and deliver entertainment and news.

Rendering of a human kidney”Most experts believe that kidney disease is caused by an immune response against the kidney,” explains principal investigator Andrey S. Shaw, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “But our evidence suggests that defects that are intrinsic to the kidney also contribute to kidney failure.”