Newsroom Stories

Sports updates for August, 2010.

University College students hang a fluorescent light fixture at the North Side Community School in St. Louis July 24 in a service project in conjunction with UCollege’s “Volunteer Resource Management” class. Students painted rooms, assembled furniture and hung boards and light fixtures. University College is holding a preview night for all its programs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Holmes Lounge.

Outlet: LiveScience.com Title/Program: 3-D models promise better bone healing Publication Date: 07/30/2010 Extract: Bone breaks often continue to limit movement after they heal because the body repairs bones in ways that change the shape of joints. According to work presented at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and computer animation conference, 3-D modeling soon could make those […]

Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, the Adolphus Busch Professor and head of the Department of Medicine, has been named dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago.

Outlet: FOX2now St. Louis Title/Program: Eating Raw Crayfish Causes Mysterious Illness Publication Date: 07/29/2010 Extract: ONLINE VIDEO. Over the past year, some Missouri stream floaters have found themselves hospitalized with an illness so strange, it is difficult to diagnose. Adam Brewer’s troubles began on a float trip when he pulled a live crayfish out of […]

Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital plan to build a new Siteman Cancer Center in south St. Louis County, serving the Interstate 55 corridor and southern Illinois.

Missouri is getting national attention with the Aug. 3 Proposition C referendum on  federal health care reform. But Timothy D. McBride, PhD, associate dean for public health at the Brown School, says no matter the outcome, the vote will have little impact on the new health care law.

Outlet: GenomeWeb Title/Program: CMS to reimburse for genetic testing in Iverson’s Warfarin PGx study; Genmark to provide platform Publication Date: 07/28/2010 Extract: A five-year Genetics Informatics Trial of Warfarin, or GIFT, is being led by Brian Gage, an internist and health service researcher at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and involves 1,600 knee […]

The protein SIRT1 in the brain is tied into a mechanism that allows animals to survive when food is scarce, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The research suggests that SIRT1 may be involved with the life span-increasing effect of low-calorie diets, they report.

John C. Georgian, who taught mechanical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis for 60 years, died Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in St. Louis after a brief illness. He was 97.