The School of Medicine will receive about $9 million over five years to investigate new ways to diagnose and treat stroke. The new research center will become part of a national network of stroke centers.
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a study conducted at the School of Medicine, older people who did endurance exercise training for about a year ended up with metabolically much younger hearts.
With each new school year comes a fresh start. For the past decade, Washington Uni-versity students have helped St. Louis-area school children get a new start in clean, colorful hallways and classrooms. More than 10,000 WUSTL students have volunteered their time over the past 10 years to clean and beautify schools as part of Service […]
Timothy McBride, Ph.D., professor, has been named the first associate dean for public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work according to Edward F. Lawlor, Ph.D., dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor. In this role, McBride will lead the effort to establish the Brown School’s Master of Public Health degree […]
“We are headed into a time when a confluence of changes are going to lead to a perfect storm, making us finally realize that our health care system needs a major overhaul,” says Timothy D. McBride, Ph.D., leading health economist and professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. “As the elderly population doubles between now and about 2030, projections are that we will see at least a doubling of the costs of the federal and state health and retirement programs,” he says. “That will likely be when the perfect storm hits. But if we miss it then, we will likely have missed all the storm clouds for the foreseeable future.”
Troy Ruths of the national champion men’s basketball team has been honored as the 2007-08 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America of the Year, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Ruths is the first student-athlete in WUSTL history to receive the honor. The announcement was made to a national television audience Aug. […]
Employees, patients and visitors to the Washington University Medical Center have a new and improved commute with the Aug. 18 opening of the redesigned and rebuilt I-64/Kingshighway interchange.