Author: Elizabeth Erman

Newborns with respiratory distress should be evaluated for primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare genetic disease that has features similar to cystic fibrosis, says Thomas Ferkol from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He reports finding that about 80 percent of patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) have a history of newborn respiratory distress.

Researchers found that a medication used to reduce toxic side effects of chemotherapy induced bone loss and helped tumors grow in bone.

Photo by Robert BostonWashington University physicians celebrate with Kaidence Oliver (center), who was the 1,000th liver transplant patient in Washington University’s liver transplant program.

A Missouri man injured in the Hawaiian surf regains use of his arms through surgery by Susan Mackinnon, M.D., chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

School of Medicine researchers find a biomarker that will aid diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders.

The School of Medicine’s Tobacco-Free Policy has been approved and will go into effect April 2, 2007.

He was president of the hospital from 1968 to 1995.

Joseph T. Strong, a research engineer in the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.

Leonard Berg, founder and former director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, died Monday, Jan. 15, following a stroke. His early work formed the foundation for the systemized assessment of dementia and detection of early onset of Alzheimer’s disease now in common use.

Early registration closes Dec. 13 for the School of Law’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law workshop.