Medicine & Health

iHeard St. Louis, a program run by the Health Communication Research Laboratory at the Brown School, is expanding its  health misinformation response system to four new states plus Washington, D.C.

Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, chief of the cardiac surgery section in the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine, has been named the John M. Shoenberg Chair in Cardiovascular Disease.

Four faculty members of Washington University in St. Louis were elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the academy announced April 19. They are Jean Allman, Scott J. Hultgren, Tristram R. Kidder and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel.

An FDA-approved sleeping pill reduced levels of Alzheimer’s proteins in a small study of healthy volunteers led by School of Medicine researchers. The study hints at the potential of sleep medications to slow or stop Alzheimer’s progression, although much more research is needed regarding such an approach.

A new study by researchers at the School of Medicine reveals that a connection between the body and mind is built into the structure of the brain.

Tristan J. McIntosh, an assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study ethical collaborations between academia and industry in the development of brain technologies.

A clinical trial led by the School of Medicine has shown that the investigational drug motixafortide — when combined with the standard therapy for mobilizing stem cells —may improve stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma patients.

Quing Zhu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and Matthew Mutch, MD, at the School of Medicine, have been working together to develop a new imaging technology that can help doctors determine which colorectal cancer patients’ treatments have been successful, helping some to avoid surgery. Their efforts received a $1.75 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.

From the Civil War to the 21st century, Black women have fought to become physicians. A new book by Jasmine Brown, AB ’18, tells the story of the barriers Black women pursuing a career in medicine have faced throughout ­history.

Meghan Campbell, an associate professor of neurology and of radiology at the School of Medicine, and Caterina Gratton, of Florida State University, have received a five-year $3 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to image functional brain networks in people with Parkinson’s disease.