Lose weight at work with Weight Watchers
Members of the Washington University School of Medicine community are welcome to join one of two longstanding Weight Watchers meetings on the Medical Campus.
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Urinary tract infections steal from hosts’ defense arsenals
Sports update July 2012: Richter drafted by Harlem Globetrotters
Former Bears basketball player Dylan Richter was selected by the Harlem Globetrotters in their sixth annual player draft, while senior Elizabeth Phillips was named 2012 Capital One Academic All-America of the Year Division III award winner for women’s track & field/cross country.
Roediger receives lifetime achievement award
Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science (APS). Describing Roediger as “one of the world’s best known and most respected researchers in cognitive psychology,” the APS presented him with its highest honor during the annual convention in Chicago May 24-27.
Blood test predicts death from heart problems after surgery
A blood test can predict whether patients are likely to
die of a heart attack in the month after surgery, according to an
international study involving thousands of patients.
Federal regulatory spending budget to decrease next year
The budget for issuing and enforcing federal regulation is expected to decline in the 2013 fiscal year, finds a new report from Washington University in St. Louis and George Washington University.
Cleon Yohe Jr., emeritus professor of mathematics, 70
Cleon R. Yohe Jr., PhD, emeritus professor of
mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.
Louis, died Tuesday, June 26, of cancer. He was 70.
Surprising culprit behind chemo resistance in rare cancer
Researchers led by Michael H. Tomasson, MD, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown how an aggressive form of multiple myeloma resists chemotherapy. Multiple myeloma is a rare cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow. Though the finding has no immediate benefit for patients, the scientists say it could help guide research into better treatments.
Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process Sept. 14 to Jan. 7, 2013
As a medium, drawing lends itself to the theoretical and experimental. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, an exhibition of more than 60 Minimalist, Conceptual and Post-Minimalist works by 39 artists, dating from the late 1950s to today. Drawn primarily from the renowned collection of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky, the exhibition focuses on practices that emerged during the postwar period — a time of great innovation in drawing — yet which continue to influence contemporary practitioners.
Moving forward: ACA provides opportunity to improve overall health system
The survival of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court presents a monumental moment to improve the U.S. health care system, says Elizabeth Sepper, JD, health law expert and associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “It is a uniquely American crisis that 50 million Americans don’t have health insurance and another 29 million are underinsured, meaning getting sick would ruin them financially even though they’ve been paying for insurance,” she says.