Recent revelations that NBC News’
chief medical correspondent violated an Ebola quarantine after
returning from Africa, and that a Dallas health care worker infected
with the virus boarded a commercial jet have focused the nation’s
attention on Ebola and what can be done to protect citizens. While measures like quarantine do restrict the freedom
of exposed individuals, they do so to protect the public’s health, says a
Washington University in St. Louis expert on biomedical ethics.
In an Oct. 8 ceremony, Ross C. Brownson, PhD, a leading expert in chronic disease prevention and applied epidemiology, was installed as the Bernard Becker Professor. Brownson holds joint appointments at the Brown School and at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
More than 3 million pregnant women give birth in the United States every year. But physicians still know little about the best ways to manage the crucial second stage of labor, the stage that is the hardest physically on mothers and their babies. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis have received an $8.7 million grant to study how best to
manage the second stage.
In an effort to extend opportunities to members of the medical school community who wish to share thoughts and viewpoints on becoming a more diverse and inclusive community, the School of Medicine is hosting a series of facilitated discussions.
The Peacock Loop Diner, part of the $80 million Lofts of Washington University, which also features apartments for some 400 undergraduates and grocery store United Provisions, is now open for business. The 24-hour diner is owned by Joe Edwards, who also operates Blueberry Hill, the Pageant and the Tivoli. “This really makes the Delmar Loop a 24-7 neighorhood,” Edwards said.
Injuries to six brain areas are much more devastating to patients’ abilities to think and adapt to everyday challenges than damage to other parts of the brain, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have learned.
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has brought “How to Build a Universe that Falls Apart Two Days Later” (2014), by Danish artist Jakob Kolding, to the Skinker MetroLink station. The piece has been installed at the southwest entrance of the staton at the corner of Skinker Blvd. and Forest Park Parkway. It explores the gaps between how architectural spaces are planned and how they’re actually used, consists of protest-style posters, pasted to the wall in variable configurations.
Three Egyptian mummies journeyed Sunday from their home at the Saint Louis Art Museum to the campus of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital to be examined in a state-of-the-art computerized tomography (CT) scanner. CT scans — sometimes referred to as CAT scans — use special equipment that emits a […]
A Q&A with Sean Joe, PhD, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, who came to Washington University in St. Louis this fall from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on black adolescents’ mental health; the role of religion in black suicidal behavior; and the development of father-focused, family-based interventions to prevent black adolescent males from engaging in multiple forms of self-destructive behaviors.
Gregory Knese, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a $138,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “Harmonic Analysis and Spaces of Analytic Functions in Several Variables.”
