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The center is making every effort to ensure students have that right job waiting for them upon graduating; the first step was to reach out to as many as possible.

It’s perhaps the one day of the year when Hilltop Campus staff members are actually encouraged to take a long lunch, go play some golf or have a leisurely walk around campus for a couple of hours. Whether you want to celebrate the end of the academic year with a competitive game of softball, tossing […]

Exercise and losing weight can help obese older people reduce their risks for impaired daily living, limited mobility and functional decline.

Photo by Robert BostonFirst-grader Fairah Jeffries closely inspects a dissected cow’s eyeball in the mini-medicine course at Adams School in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood.School of Medicine students led a pilot program to introduce minority grade-school students to medicine and spark their interest in health-care professions.

Older men who have recently fractured a hip or had hip-replacement surgery are needed for a study to see if restoring testosterone to youthful levels and exercise can improve functioning and quality of life.

A national study performed at the medical school showed that corticosteroids are good for treating symptoms of asthma in preschoolers, but not for preventing the disease. More medical news

Washington University in St. Louis will host a symposium May 30-31 to bring together people interested in developing new enterprises in Missouri based on research discoveries.

WarrenSpending by federal regulatory agencies is scheduled to decline when adjusted for inflation according to “Moderating Regulatory Growth: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007,” this year’s edition of the annual report on regulatory spending and staffing by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis.

ZebrafishTo learn more about how glucose affects human development, Washington University researchers have developed the first vertebrate model of the role of glucose in embryonic brain development. The model is made up of zebrafish. Their transparent embryos develop similarly to humans, except that they grow outside of the mother’s body, where development can be more easily observed. The model provides the foundation for and insight into the roles of nutrition and genetics in human birth defects.

Robert Morley & Ed Richter investigated static electricity buildup from sliding down a plastic slide, which can temporarily silence the world to cochlear implantees.