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Medical student receives prestigious fellowship to research nerve injury

medical student smiles at earning fellowship

Alexandra Keane, who this fall will begin her second year as a medical student at the School of Medicine, is among 50 recipients of a $5,000 summer research fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society.

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Question: Why are the archives of the groundbreaking civil rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize” housed in University Libraries?

Medicine & Health

Doctors paid by drug companies more likely to use those companies’ meds

Ophthalmologists who receive money from pharmaceutical companies are more likely to prescribe medications promoted by those companies than similar drugs that are less costly, a new School of Medicine study shows.

Campus & Community

Obituary: Jessie L. Ternberg, professor emerita of surgery, surgery in pediatrics, 92

Jessie L. Ternberg, PhD, MD, a professor emerita of surgery and surgery in pediatrics, died July 9, 2016, of natural causes while on vacation in Zermatt, Switzerland. She was the first female surgical resident at Barnes Hospital and served for decades at the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Ternberg, of Creve Coeur, was 92.

Medicine & Health

A detailed map of how the brain is organized

A detailed new map by researchers at the School of Medicine lays out the landscape of the cerebral cortex – the outermost layer of the brain and the dominant structure involved in sensory perception and attention, as well as distinctly human functions such as language, tool use and abstract thinking.

Humanities & Society

Screening for suicide risk among urban children vitally important

Screening for suicide risk among publicly insured urban children who are experiencing psychological distress is vitally important, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Medicine & Health

Potential new target identified for treating itch

School of Medicine researchers have found how sensory nerve cells work together to transmit itch signals from the skin to the spinal cord, where neurons then carry those signals to the brain. Their discovery may help scientists find more effective ways to make itching stop.

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Medical student receives prestigious fellowship to research nerve injury

Who Knew WashU? 7.19.16

Doctors paid by drug companies more likely to use those companies’ meds

Obituary: Jessie L. Ternberg, professor emerita of surgery, surgery in pediatrics, 92

A detailed map of how the brain is organized

Screening for suicide risk among urban children vitally important

Potential new target identified for treating itch

Center for the Humanities announces 2015-16 grants

University College preview night Thursday

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