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Adults diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after age 50 are more likely to achieve remission from their symptoms than patients diagnosed at younger ages, even when those patients receive similar treatments, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The study is the first to look at patients whose colitis was treated with modern medications. Nearly 1 million U.S. adults have ulcerative colitis. 

Sick infants, life-saving helicopter transports, antibiotics that may cause harm. But, these same drugs might actually protect babies’ hearing during their noisy rides.

Outlet: E Science NewsTitle/Program: How blocking the ‘Programmed Death 1’ protein may treat or prevent sepsis and severe infectionPublication Date: 08/02/2010 Extract: Scientists have made an important discovery that could lead to new drugs that reduce the severity of blood infections leading to sepsis. Research presented in the August 2010 issue of Journal of Leukocyte […]

Sports updates for August, 2010.

University College students hang a fluorescent light fixture at the North Side Community School in St. Louis July 24 in a service project in conjunction with UCollege’s “Volunteer Resource Management” class. Students painted rooms, assembled furniture and hung boards and light fixtures. University College is holding a preview night for all its programs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Holmes Lounge.

Outlet: LiveScience.com Title/Program: 3-D models promise better bone healing Publication Date: 07/30/2010 Extract: Bone breaks often continue to limit movement after they heal because the body repairs bones in ways that change the shape of joints. According to work presented at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and computer animation conference, 3-D modeling soon could make those […]

Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, the Adolphus Busch Professor and head of the Department of Medicine, has been named dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago.

Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital plan to build a new Siteman Cancer Center in south St. Louis County, serving the Interstate 55 corridor and southern Illinois.

Missouri is getting national attention with the Aug. 3 Proposition C referendum on  federal health care reform. But Timothy D. McBride, PhD, associate dean for public health at the Brown School, says no matter the outcome, the vote will have little impact on the new health care law.

Outlet: FOX2now St. Louis Title/Program: Eating Raw Crayfish Causes Mysterious Illness Publication Date: 07/29/2010 Extract: ONLINE VIDEO. Over the past year, some Missouri stream floaters have found themselves hospitalized with an illness so strange, it is difficult to diagnose. Adam Brewer’s troubles began on a float trip when he pulled a live crayfish out of […]