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The diabetes drug rosiglitazone has been under intense scrutiny since a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at more than 40 clinical trials and linked the drug’s use with increased risk of heart attack and death from heart disease.

WUSTL police staff members meet Matt, an Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale, during the IACLEA Family Event at Grant’s Farm June 20. Washington University, led by a university-wide committee chaired by WUSTL Police Chief Strom, hosted the 2010 IACLEA (International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators) annual conference in St. Louis June 18-22.  

Ramesh Agarwal has won a series of awards this past year both for his work in green aviation (using computational fluid dynamics and flow control to increase the energy efficiency of airplanes, trucks and wind turbines) and for his tireless devotion to teaching and mentoring engineering students.

In a step toward curing diabetes in humans, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have alleviated the disease in rats using transplants from both embryonic and adult pigs. The rats adopted the pig transplants as their own and produced enough insulin to control their blood sugar – all without the need for anti-rejection drugs.

The U.S. Senate lost one of its staunchest defenders and most influential leaders with the death Monday, June 28, of long-serving Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia. “The death of Robert Byrd is important,” says Steven S. Smith, a congressional expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “He was first and foremost a senator. He loved the Senate and was the strongest defender of its traditions.”

The School of Medicine’s Farmer’s Market is held every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April through September in the fountain plaza outside of the Barnes & Noble bookstore.

It’s no secret that Americans tend to throw their support behind a sitting U.S. president when the nation is thrust into a war or other potentially violent conflict with a foreign foe. But new research from Washington University in St. Louis is the first to show that these “rally effects” represent a collective reaction to a specific human emotion – anger.

Resveratrol — found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye, according to vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The discovery has implications for preserving vision in blinding eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration.

Steven A. Edmundowicz, MD, professor of medicine, received the Distinguished Educator Award from the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy May 2 at the society’s Crystal Awards dinner in New Orleans. The award goes to a physician educator and recognizes contributions to the education of fellows through endoscopy seminars, participation in national postgraduate courses and published […]

Scientists have shown that a specific virus can interact with a mutation in the host’s genes to trigger disease. The observation may help explain why many people with disease risk genes do not actually develop disease.