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A pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at the School of Medicine has shown early success in correcting a congenital foot defect with minimal surgery.

Yoel Sadovsky, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named president-elect of the Perinatal Research Society. The international society fosters scientific interchange and collaboration among established investigators whose research interests are in the area of perinatal-neonatal medicine and developmental biology.

School of Medicine researchers have untangled two similar disabilities that often afflict stroke patients, revealing that one may be treatable with drugs for Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers seek to find whether omega-3 fatty acids found in the oil of certain fish may lower the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

School of Medicine researchers plan to use MRI scans to help predict siblings’ risk of developing mental disorders such as schizophrenia.

Recent research by School of Medicine scientists led them to believe that fluorine-laced nanoparticles can be used to evaluate tumors and their growth.

Longtime chairman of the Department of Pathology and Immunology Emil Unanue, M.D., will be honored with a daylong symposium April 27.

Bottles without original labels pose risk.With spring comes cleaning — the house, the yard, the basement and the car. And with cleaning comes potential hazards. People use them every day, but if common cleaners and pesticides are stored or applied incorrectly, they can have fatal consequences, say experts in environmental safety and emergency medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. More…

A study of how the brain of a premature infant responds to injury has found vulnerabilities similar to those in the mature brain but also identified at least one significant difference, according to neuroscientists and neonatologists at the School of Medicine.

Developing brain tumors can coax assistance from nearby cells known as microglia, according to a new study from scientists at the School of Medicine. The researchers have identified one protein made by microglia that helps accelerate tumor growth and are looking for others.