Medicine & Health

WashU Medicine researchers analyzed emergency department visits and hospitalizations related to substance use nationwide and found diverging age patterns: While alcohol was involved in the majority of visits by older adults, cannabis predominated among young people.

Physician Andrés Bur has been named chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine. Bur is a leading expert in precision oncology, machine learning and translational research.

Child and adolescent psychiatrist Cynthia Rogers discusses how WashU Medicine’s clinical expertise, research and expanded access to care are improving the lives of children and their families.

Psychology researchers at WashU have found evidence that children’s exposure to natural spaces correlates with improved attention and achievement scores.

The drinking rate of adults who have had cancer has remained unchanged for nearly a decade, according to a new study by researchers at the WashU Brown School.

WashU Medicine researchers have rewritten the story on a group of viruses once thought to directly infect human tissue and play a role in gastrointestinal disease. They found that the common virus actually infects gut bacteria, redefining how these viruses impact human health.

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, helped develop the first national standards of care for suicide prevention specifically for the social work profession. 

Funds from the American Cancer Society will support research by WashU Medicine’s Jennifer Silva-Fisher on drivers of growth and treatment resistance in multiple myeloma.

WashU Medicine maternal-fetal specialists are collaborating with rural obstetricians to reduce patients’ travel time and improve access to high-risk pregnancy care.

Learn how Bob Henkel, the program manager for signage in Enterprise Physical Operations, helps turn the sprawling Medical Campus into a place anyone can navigate.