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If some patients with heart disease don’t take their doctor’s advice to quit smoking, they are probably going to get “shocking” reminders. A study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that heart patients who had implanted defibrillators and also smoked were seven times more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

Washington University in St. Louis will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature, during the university’s 145th Commencement ceremony May 19. During the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students.

“When colleagues have professed great satisfaction about being a part of this community, it validates what we are doing,” Chancellor Wrighton said.

Some lung cancer patients — those with conditions that raise the potential for surgical complications — can be at a high risk from a lobectomy. More medical news

There are no campus watch items for this issue of the Record.

Photo by Tim ParkerChancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth speaks at a recent Advanced Research Institute on Geriatric Mental Health event.

A memorial service for Justin Allen Yeo will be held at 7 p.m. May 3 on the basketball court on the South 40; it’s open to all members of the University community.

A WUSTL team of Jon Pinyan, Huajia Wang and Eric Wofsey ranked 32 out of approximately 400 teams registered at the 2005 Putnam Competition.

Siteman’s acceptance into The National Comprehensive Cancer Network will allow the center the ability to further improve cancer care guidelines.

A memorial service for Justin Allen Yeo will be held at 7 p.m. May 3 on the basketball court on the South 40. The rain location is the Mudd House Multipurpose Room. Yeo, a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences from Arcadia, Calif., died April 16. The service is open to all members […]