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The Prevention Research Center in St. Louis is launching a multinational research project focused on preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics.

Switching from a low-fat, plant-based diet to one high in fat and sugar leads to obesity-linked microbes in the gut.

Results from assessments of diabetes’ effects on cell metabolism may aid efforts to reduce diabetic damage to nerves, blood vessels and other tissues.

School of Medicine researchers will join forces in the fight against musculoskeletal disorders at the Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine.

School of Medicine researchers have engineered mice with a persistent wound-like skin condition, which helps them understand tumor growth.

The Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases received a $37 million grant for research in those fields.

Photo by Robert BostonAmy Lawson, M.D. (center), accepts congratulations for receiving the Practice of Medicine Preceptor of the Year award from the School of Medicine Class of 2012.

Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Sharon Lockhart creates films and photographs that are at once rigorously formal and deeply humanistic. Beginning Friday, Feb. 5, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum opens a major exhibit of Lockhart’s called “Lunch Break,” showcasing American workers at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.

Alexander Garza, M.D., assistant secretary for health affairs and chief medical officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will come to the School of Medicine to speak about the H1N1 flu pandemic.

Scientists at the School of Medicine are investigating a new way to fight the flu. With funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, they will establish a Drug Discovery Center to identify compounds that enhance the body’s natural virus-killing mechanisms to overcome the flu.