Author: Elizabeth Erman

Photo by Robert BostonA group of pre-health students from the Japanese university spent a week at the School of Medicine taking part in classes in the Programs in Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy.

Although crib bumper pads are theoretically designed to prevent injury to a baby, the risk of accidental death or injury to an infant outweighs their possible benefits.

A resistance gene that allows bacteria to beat an important class of antibiotics has started to appear in microorganisms taken from Midwestern patients.

Daniel P. Schuster, M.D., professor of medicine and of radiology, died unexpectedly Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. He was 57.

Helen M. Aff-Drum, associate professor emerita of clinical pediatrics and a clinical professor from 1938-2002, died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. She was 99.

An enriched peanut-butter mixture given at home is successfully promoting recovery in large numbers of starving children in Malawi, research by Mark Manary, M.D., shows.

Mary Jane Spiegel, a lab assistant at the School of Medicine from 1957-1986, died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. She was 87.

Photo by Tim ParkerFirst-year medical students learn to work together at the annual Diversity Retreat, sponsored by Student Support Services and the Office of Diversity Programs.

Two recently discovered control networks that govern voluntary brain activity in adults start life as a single network in children.

For the first time, researchers have discovered a gene that underlies scoliosis, which affects about 3 percent of all children.