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Photo by Robert BostonElliot Elson’s lab is a center of collaboration and invention.

The volleyball team will begin its season ranked No. 5 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) top 25 poll. Head coach Rich Luenemann led WUSTL to a 32-7 overall record last year, winning the University Athletic Association (UAA) championship and advancing to the NCAA Division III regional finals. The Bears count three returning starters […]

Photo by Joe AngelesThe new Post-9/11 G.I. Bill is expected to attract even more veteran candidates to Washington University.

Itch and pain signals are transmitted along different pathways in the spinal cord, School of Medicine researchers have found.

When estrogen-lowering drugs no longer control metastatic breast cancer, the opposite strategy might work.

Kelle H. Moley, M.D., has been named the first James P. Crane Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Washington University Orthopedics provided medical care for the Saint Louis Athletica women’s professional soccer team.

Photo by Robert BostonChristine Yokoyama (left), a first-year medical student, receives a white coat from her father, Wayne Yokoyama, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, at the Class of 2013 White Coat Ceremony Aug. 14 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

On Thursday, August 20th, business, faith and health care leaders from across the region will come together at the Family Care Health Center in St. Louis to give their perspective on why federal health care reform is important for Missouri. The speakers, including health care providers, educators, business owners and faith leaders, will each speak for several minutes and then make themselves available to answer media questions following the presentations.

For teens with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families, the transition to young adulthood may be especially difficult. To better understand this issue and how best to address it, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded a five-year grant to Paul T. Shattuck, Ph.D., assistant professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. “This study will help us one day answer one of the most pressing issues in treating ASD,” said NIMH Director Thomas R. Insel, M.D. “Bridging the gap in health care, service use, and insurance coverage as these young people leave the school systems and enter adulthood may help prevent lapses in behavioral, social, and occupational skills that they and their families have worked so hard to achieve.”