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School of Medicine researchers report a type of imaging allowed them to estimate the chronic effects of inflammation of the optic nerve in MS patients.

A strict regimen of brushing the teeth of patients in the intensive-care unit on breathing machines reduced the rate of pneumonia, a new study finds.

A local program designed to increase awareness about sickle cell disease in the African-American faith community led to a huge increase in first-time blood donations.

Richard M. Torack, M.D., a pioneering researcher in dementia, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. He was 81.

In January, 18 School of Medicine faculty were presented with Distinguished Faculty Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in clinical care, community service, research and teaching.

From Jan. 30 through Feb. 2, the official flag of Finland will fly with the U.S. flag on top of Brookings Hall, Washington University’s signature building on the Danforth Campus. This is in recognition of the opening of “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” and “On the Riverfront: St. Louis and the Gateway Arch,” exhibitions celebrating the work of the late Finnish architect, Eero Saarinen, who designed the St. Louis Gateway Arch.

Several hundred physicians at Washington University School of Medicine are among the nation’s finest, according to two surveys of thousands of U.S. doctors. More than 300 Washington University physicians have been named to The Best Doctors In America for 2008. The number is nearly three times that of any other physicians’ group in St. Louis and more than any other physicians’ group in the Midwest.

The first test of the University’s outdoor warning sirens, located on the roofs of Brookings and Seigle halls, will take place Monday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m. Tests will occur on the first Monday of each month thereafter in conjunction with St. Louis County’s outdoor warning siren test.

Hearing aid manufacturers are constantly developing more sophisticated instruments, yet remarkably, studies show that user satisfaction hasn’t increased much, if at all. A group of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis wondered if they could address this problem by teaching people with hearing loss how to listen better.

School of Medicine researchers have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study heart failure in diabetic patients.