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Researchers have found what may be a useful biomarker for diagnosing cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes.

A protein that absorbs lipids in the upper part of the intestine may hold the key to a novel approach for obesity treatment.

Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D., was named director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) effective July 1.

Photo by Robert BostonReina Armamento-Villareal, M.D., focuses her research on how estrogen production and breakdown affects bone health in men and women.

The Department of Anesthesiology’s Anita Minor wrote about her the gifts of her son with Down syndrome in a new book.

School of Medicine research shows that surgical repair of sports hernias using tension-free mesh, paired with rehabilitation, successfully returned most athletes to competition.

D. Ashley Hill, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, will receive a two-year grant from The Hope Street Kids, a program that supports and promotes research into pediatric tumors. The program will provide $70,000 over the next two years to support Hill’s search for the genetic causes of pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB), a rare childhood lung tumor originally identified by Hill’s mentor at Washington University, Louis P. “Pepper” Dehner, professor of pathology and immunology and of pathology in pediatrics.

A molecular factor involved in maintaining the heart’s energy supply could become a key to new approaches to prevent or treat heart failure, School of Medicine researchers have found.

Courtesy PhotoJeffrey Lowell, M.D., (left) and Eric Shirley, lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, perform clubfoot repair surgery on a child while on board the USNS Comfort.Jeffrey Lowell, M.D., was deployed on the military hospital ship USNS Comfort this month to serve as a general surgeon while the ship was in Central America.

A $5.7 million grant will establish a center at the School of Medicine that will investigate the underlying causes of kidney disease to speed the development of new treatments.