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An experimental device implanted into a Missouri man’s chest hopes to do what maximum doses of four medications can’t — lower his blood pressure. The electrical implant was activated at Barnes-Jewish Dialysis Center July 11. Marcos Rothstein, center director and associate professor of medicine, comments about the procedure in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

Teenage soda consumption is on the rise.A new study released by the Center for Science in the Public Interest calls on the Food and Drug Administration to require health warnings on sodas as teenage consumption of sugary drinks continues to rise. Teenage boys who drink carbonated or non-carbonated soft drinks consume an average of three 12-ounce cans per day, and girls more than two cans, according to a new analysis of 1999-2002 government data. Teens who drink soft drinks get nearly 15 percent of their total calories from those drinks. Connie Diekman, a dietary expert at Washington University in St. Louis, has several suggestions for helping to curb teenage soda consumption.

Photo by Kevin LowderBetsy Foy (left) and Kay Komotos walk on campus June 22 as part of the WU Walks program, which encourages personal health and well-being.

Deanna Barch (center) discusses brain imaging techniques used in the experiment, which used the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine (shown at right).When encouraged to use memorization strategies commonly employed by healthy individuals, people with schizophrenia can be helped to remember information just as well as their healthy counterparts, a process that in itself seems to spur a normalization of memory-related activities in the brains of people with schizophrenia, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Written in a plainspoken and often humorous style, the memoir offers a fresh and engaging perspective on Reagan’s leadership style and motivations.

He joins Lee Epstein, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., professor of economics, as the third Mallinckrodt professor in Arts & Sciences.

The grant from Hewlett-Packard was for 21 wireless tablet PCs with docking stations, along with a digital camera, portable projector and printer.

The professor emeritus will try to develop a Salmonella-based oral vaccine to protect infants from bacterial pneumonia.

Each individual’s reponse to aerobic training allowed the researchers to identify regions on chromosomes 6, 7 and 19 that are linked to the debilitating disease.

Cathepsin G regulates the ability of neutrophils to secrete chemicals that attract other immune cells and start the local inflammatory process.