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Photo by Robert BostonCobb heals the critically ill in the surgical ICU.

Undergraduate tuition at Washington University in St. Louis will be $37,800 for the 2009-10 academic year — a $1,600 (4.4 percent) increase over the 2008-09 current academic tuition of $36,200. The required student activity fee will total $378, and the student health fee will be no more than the current charge of $686. Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance, made the announcement.

Matthew Ellis, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has demonstrated that a surprising therapy can help control metastatic breast cancer.

Terrie E. Inder, M.D., Ph.D., has received a 2008 Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The $1.5 million award recognizes outstanding leadership in clinical research and allows leading physician-scientists to meld biomedical research and clinical applications that improve human health. Inder, a pediatrician and researcher at the School of Medicine and […]

Nearly 24 million children and adults in the United States, or nearly 8 percent of the population, have diabetes. While about 18 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, the rest may be unaware that they have the disease. The School of Medicine is sponsoring free blood sugar screenings and information on diabetes Jan. 23 from […]

If you’re looking to reduce facial wrinkles or enhance your lips without surgery, you’re not alone. Increasingly, consumers are choosing non-surgical procedures that use injectable fillers to improve their appearance. With a wide range of injectable fillers available, consumers must spend some time evaluating their options, says Gregory Branham, a facial plastic surgeon at the School of Medicine.

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The McDonnell Center for Space Sciences will host a student poster session today and tomorrow on the first floor of the Earth & Planetary Sciences Building on the Danforth Campus. A valedictory reception will be held at 4 p.m. today.

WUSTL’s No. 21 national ranking in last year’s RecycleMania competition was impressive, but the Office of Sustainability is challenging WUSTL to finish even higher in the 2009 RecycleMania contest, which begins Sunday, Jan. 18.

Photo by Robert BostonIn France, J. Perren Cobb, M.D., would be called a ‘reanimateur’ — a critical care doctor who specializes in bringing patients back from the brink of death. Cobb, professor of surgery and of anesthesiology, cares for patients in the surgical intensive care unit.