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Women runners claim UAA championship The No. 4 women’s cross country team won its fourth straight UAA Championship Oct. 29 at the meet hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. The 18th-ranked men finished fourth. Junior Elizabeth Herndon won the women’s 6K race in 22:07.40. This is the third consecutive year that a Bears runner has claimed […]

Faculty, students and staff can purchase a $10 ticket for round-trip transportation between the Hilltop Campus and Lambert airport.

The finding adds mice to the roster of creatures that croon in the presence of the opposite sex, including songbirds, whales and some insects. More medical news

Theatrical pioneer Anne Bogart will bring the first American stage production of this early German Renaissance classic to WUSTL Nov. 11-12.

The Olin School’s Claus Langfred found that too much trust could actually be bad for business — when it comes to working on team projects.

The illustrated lecture stems from her recent book, 100 Best Books for Children, an in-depth survey of children’s literature.

Each spring, four student plays — two full-length works and two shorts — are selected by blind jury and work-shopped the following fall.

Antibiotics are not the answer to curing the common cold.The sniffles. A runny nose. A cough. That’s right — the cold season is upon us. But before you head off to your doctor demanding antibiotics to lessen your symptoms, be aware that those drugs don’t always work and can have serious side effects, say two physicians at Washington University in St. Louis.

Pitchers often lose range of motion in their pitching elbows.Now that the Chicago White Sox have swept the Houston Astros in the World Series, most baseball players are taking some time to rest. Time off is especially important for pitchers because throwing a baseball overhand is both an unnatural motion and a burden on the shoulder and elbow. Now a research team led by Washington University sports medicine specialists has found that professional pitchers have significantly decreased range of motion in their throwing elbows. But that limited range of motion doesn’t seem to be influenced by the age of the pitcher, how many innings he has pitched or whether he has a history of injuries.

A dotted line indicates the former position of the thyroid in this child.When a child inherits an abnormal gene that leads to thyroid cancer, surgical removal of the thyroid gland before the cancer spreads is the only sure cure. Now a new study shows it is best to take out the thyroid before a child turns eight to guarantee a life free of thyroid cancer. The researchers tracked the effectiveness of preemptive thyroid removal in 50 at-risk children ranging in age from three to 19 years. All patients were followed for at least five years at Washington University School of Medicine and at Duke University School of. The surgeons found that none of the 22 children who were under eight at the time of surgery showed signs of thyroid cancer five or more years later. However, they did find indications of thyroid cancer in six of the 28 children who were older than eight when they had surgery to remove the thyroid gland.