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The School of Medicine has taken a number of steps in recent years to reduce the debt of its students.

The 2008 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education have been awarded to Leslie Kahl, M.D., David Murray, M.D., and Linda Pike, Ph.D.

The CARE in Our Community Program works with older adults in underserved neighborhoods to identify and address wide-ranging health problems like osteoporosis.

New findings from School of Medicine nutrition researchers suggest body-shape comparisons don’t completely explain risk for high blood pressure and heart disease.

Wihl Gary S. Wihl, Ph.D., dean of Rice University’s School of Humanities and a highly respected scholar and academic leader, will become dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. “Gary Wihl brings his many talents as both an accomplished scholar and an experienced administrator to Washington University at a very important time in our history,” Wrighton said.

Recent blockbuster films and television events devoted to World War II and its aftermath have claimed to break new ground by breaking taboos on the representation of German suffering while also emphasizing an emotional engagement with the past, particularly through forms of sympathy and empathy. Yet the work of Alexander Kluge, the German director and […]

Beverly Fishman, head of the painting department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ spring Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22.

Lodge Jennifer Lodge has been named associate dean for research at the School of Medicine. The appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2009. In the newly created position, Lodge will coordinate efforts to advance research at the school, focusing particularly on projects that involve multiple departments, multiple disciplines and core facilities that can serve a wide variety of researchers.

Gross (left) and Xianlin Han analyze samplesResearchers at the School of Medicine, led by heart specialist Richard Gross, are studying how altered fat metabolism causes heart failure in diabetic patients. They have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue their investigations.

Many older adults worry — a lot. Almost one in 10 Americans over age 60 suffer from an anxiety disorder that causes them to worry excessively about normal things — like health, finances, disability and family. Although antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can improve anxiety symptoms in younger adults, little has been known about their effects in older people. In the largest study of SSRIs in older people with anxiety disorders, a team of psychiatric researchers found the drug escitalopram (Lexapro®) improved anxiety symptoms and quality of life.