Author: Elizabeth Erman

Deans and top administrators from Missouri’s seven medical higher education institutions have joined to urge the passage of the Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.

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Photo by Robert BostonThe staff at the Washington University Diabetes Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital discuss nutrition and insulin pumps at the Open House Sept. 25.

At the School of Medicine “smokeout” Nov. 16, employees who smoke will receive a special gift in exchange for their cigarettes.

School of Medicine pediatric ophthalmologists surgically correct vision on some of the most profoundly impaired children.

Photo by Robert BostonJennifer Manly, John Morris, M.D., and Norman Seay at the first annual Norman R. Seay Lecture Sept. 19.

A brain region that focuses on vision also receives signals that may help configure the operation of the brain, School of Medicine researchers found.

Ophthalmologist Lawrence Tychsen examines a patient.A pediatric ophthalmologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Louis Children’s Hospital conducts specialized testing and vision correction (refractive) surgery, on children with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and neurobehavioral disorders such as autism. To date, this is one of the only U.S. medical centers performing refractive surgery on these children and has the highest volume, operating on about 60 special-needs children a year. More…

Photo by Robert BostonStephen J. Benkovic, Ph.D., Arthur Horwich, M.D., and Carl Frieden, Ph.D., talk at the “Symposium at 77” held in honor of Frieden Sept. 21.

School of Medicine researchers used transparent fish embryos to discover how genes and diet interact to cause birth defects.