Sustiva is the brand name for efavirenz.The largest detailed, prospective clinical study of the mental side effects of a potent anti-AIDS drug, efavirenz, has revealed that the anxiety, dizziness, “funny feelings” and vivid dreams triggered by the drug fade away within a month, possibly clearing the way for more widespread use. Efavirenz is the first drug from its class that lasts long enough to be taken once a day, and that makes it a potentially valuable drug for AIDS treatment.
Bright areas in this image highlight the junctions between heart muscle cells.Failing hearts develop interference in their communication channels, according to research conducted at the School of Medicine. The problem involves a subtle change in the pores that connect heart muscle cells. When the scientists duplicated this change in mice, the mice became susceptible to ventricular tachycardia, a dangerous heart rhythm disorder that can lead to sudden cardiac death.
Courtesy photoLeslie MorrisLeslie Morris, Ph.D., associate professor of German and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota, will launch the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences’ 2006 Faculty Fellows’ Lecture and Workshop Series with a pair of events Feb. 16 and 17.
Irish poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, hailed by the Irish Literary Supplement as the “most acclaimed Gaelic poet of the century,” will read from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, for Washington University’s Writing Program Reading Series.
The high-fat “diet” that diabetic heart muscle consumes helps make cardiovascular disease the most common killer of diabetic patients, according to a study done at the School of Medicine. The study will appear in the February 7 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is now available online.
Photo by Robert BostonHelping kick off St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s “Building for Care, Searching for Cures” campaign were Joe Buck, Jonathan D. Gitlin, Lee Fetter and Larry Shapiro.The collaboration will focus on accelerating cures in four areas: congenital heart disease, cancer, lung and respiratory disorders and musculoskeletal diseases.
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Since the Office of Supplier Diversity was started in 1999, WUSTL has spent $85 million with minority-owned firms and $77 million with women-owned firms.
No one is born highly creative; creativity takes hard work.Do you desire to be a more creative person but don’t think you have the “creative” gene? You may have some hard work ahead, but it’s possible to become the next Walt Disney or Martha Stewart, says an expert on creativity at Washington University in St. Louis. “No one is born highly creative,” says R. Keith Sawyer, Ph.D., associate professor of education and of psychology, both in Arts & Sciences. “Psychologists studying creativity have discovered that it is based on cognitive processes we all share. Creativity is not the result of some magic brain region that some people have and others don’t.” Oxford Press has just released Sawyer’s latest book, “Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation,” a seminal overview of the history of creativity and of research into traits that highly creative people all share.
Courtesy photoOliver LakeIn the mid- and late 1960s, the Black Arts Movement emerged as the aesthetic and spiritual corollary to the Black Power philosophy. In St. Louis, Black Artists’ Group (BAG), which flourished between 1968 and 1972, gave rise to a host of nationally recognized figures, including Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill and Hamiet Bluiett of the World Saxophone Quartet. Today, this influential yet little-known collective is undergoing a resurgence of interest, with the reissue of rare BAG recordings on the Ikef, Quakebasket and Atavistic record labels; a new definitive history published by the Missouri Historical Society Press; and an upcoming sypmosium at Washington University in St. Louis.