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Cervical cancer patients could benefit from better Medicaid, insurance coverage
Cervical cancer is one of the easiest cancers to detect early. It’s also one of the easiest to treat, if caught early. WUSM researchers even developed a method for gauging the effectiveness of treatment to determine the best therapy for each patient, but many insurance companies and Medicaid won’t pay for the process – a routine PET scan. Kay Quinn provides more details in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.
WUSTL ranks 12th in best value
Washington University in St. Louis — consistently ranked among America’s 20 best national universities — is now ranked 12th in the best value category titled “Great schools, great prices,” an increase of two spots over last year, according to new undergraduate rankings released by U.S. News & World Report magazine.
The university is tied with Northwestern University for 11th place in undergraduate programs among the nation’s best national universities.
Study justifies longer rehab for elderly hip fracture patients
Extending supervised outpatient rehabilitation by six months helps elderly patients more fully recover from hip fractures, according to the first controlled study of its kind. The study also showed for the first time that these patients, previously thought to be too frail for weight training, can benefit from progressive resistance exercise training.
‘Educate Yourself’ forums run weekly until election
With the November election quickly approaching, many people want to know more about the key issues facing the candidates. If that’s you, then you need to educate yourself! “Educate Yourself: 2004,” sponsored by Student Union, will comprise a series of weekly forums aimed at helping the University community, and the public, fully understand all sides of some of the larger issues in the upcoming election.
Rankings of WUSTL by News Media
A page entitled, “Rankings of WUSTL by News Media.”
‘Educate Yourself’ forums run weekly until election
The aim is to help the University community fully understand all sides of some of the key political issues.
Presidential Politics & Campaign Issue Experts
Washington University in St. Louis, host of a presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 8, 2004, offers the media a rich source of expertise on presidential politics and related campaign issues. The University has a strong connection to modern presidential politics, having been selected to host presidential debates in each election since 1992. Presidential debates were […]
Researchers increase folate levels in plant
WUSTL researchers are investigating how to infuse grains with folate typically found in green vegetables such as broccoli.A team of researchers led by Karel Schubert, Ph.D., affiliate research biology professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, recently achieved a breakthrough to enhance levels of folate, a vitamin essential to human and animal health, in the model plant Arabidopsis.
Does enrolling in medicare HMOs affect mortality?
People who are enrolled in Medicare Choice HMO plans with drug coverage die at about the same rate as those in traditional fee-for-service Medicare plans, but mortality rates for those in Medicare HMO plans without drug coverage are substantially higher. That’s the conclusion of a recent study done by Gautam Gowrisankaran, Ph.D., an assistant professor of economics at the Olin School of Business of Washington University in St. Louis, with University of Minnesota colleague Robert J. Town. The researchers’ estimates imply that a 10-percentage point shift in coverage from fee-for-service to HMO plans without drug coverage could result in 51,000 additional deaths per year among the elderly.
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