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Researchers are trying to reduce the number of pills needed by AIDS patients.The public perception of AIDS treatment — a cocktail of many different pills taken several times a day — has largely been erased in the U.S. thanks to advances in drug design and delivery. Many patients are able to keep sufficiently high medication levels in their bodies with once-daily doses. Now researchers in an international collaborative that includes the WUSM Aids Clinical Trials Unit have begun an ambitious new study to see if this treatment paradigm can be implemented in Third World countries.

As the Senate prepares to consider nominees for two Supreme Court vacancies, some liberals fear that President Bush will use the opportunity to pack the High Court with conservative-leaning justices, pushing the law of the land dramatically to the right for years to come. However, a new book on the history of America’s judicial nomination process offers compelling evidence that a president’s ability to perpetuate personal political legacies through court appointments tends to be both short-lived and unpredictable. When it comes to the politics of Supreme Court nominees, president’s don’t always get what they want, suggests WUSTL Supreme Court expert Lee Epstein.

Smoking can increase the risk of death from cervical cancer.Cervical cancer patients infected with either of two strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) were twice as likely to die of their disease as patients with other common strains of HPV, according to a study at the School of Medicine. In addition, smokers with these strains increased their risk of death even further.

Photo by Robert BostonThe state-of-the-art Farrell Learning and Teaching Center will celebrate its grand opening Sept. 16 with a series of events.

Subsequent speakers include painter T.L. Solien, photographer Phyllis Galembo, graphic designer Michael Mabry and painter Helene Aylon.

Andrew S. Pekosz, Ph.D., Jay F. Piccirillo, M.D., David M. Jaffe, M.D., Matteo Levisetti, M.D., Robyn Klein, M.D., Ph.D., and more…

An homage to the great Swedish singer Jenny Lind, widely known as “The Swedish Nightengale,” will begin at 8 p.m. Sept. 12.

Photo by Robert BostonMedical students Tom Shane and Steve Sperry sample weights at the new student workout center, which they helped organize.

The staged reading focuses on Margaret, a young Korean-American architecture student who must present her final degree project.

The protein has the ability to help keep cells alive, but does so by interfering with programmed cell death, or apoptosis.