Medicine & Health

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering have developed a method that leverages artificial intelligence to ensure accurate heart scans without added radiation or cost.

The Undiagnosed Diseases Network at WashU Medicine plans to increase outreach to medically underserved communities and boost the number of patients seen.

Researchers at WashU have developed bioelectronic scaffolds in a unique way that creates new tissues.

A new neural network model by researchers at Washington University offers a way to uncover what brain mechanisms are at play when people need to focus amid many distractions.

Researchers at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have identified specific neuronal cells that are essential to our understanding of other people.

A graduate student in Arts & Sciences at WashU will study ways to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

WashU Medicine has launched the Center for Rare, Undiagnosed and Genetic Diseases, which brings together researchers and patient communities to create a collaborative network to drive innovative research and accelerate drug discovery.

Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor at WashU Medicine, along with colleagues Zongtao (Tom) Lin and Dongwen Lyu, received a four-year $2.4 million grant renewal from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A recent study by WashU Medicine researchers found Black children were about half as likely as white children to obtain genetic testing ordered by their neurologists.

Sarah Moreland-Russell, at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a four-year $2.65 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand how schools respond to changes in policy guiding school lunch and breakfast programs affect health.