School of Medicine

Leonard Berg, M.D., will be remembered at a memorial service at 2 p.m. March 31 in the Connor Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

Diabetes is hard on the heart — adults with diabetes die from heart disease about two to four times more often than those without diabetes. And scientific evidence has suggested that blood fat levels are a source of this problem. Now a clinical study at the School of Medicine is investigating the link between blood fat and heart health.

Photo by Mary Butkus(From left) Michelle Levy, a junior majoring in biology in Arts & Sciences, with her date, fourth-year medical student Sameer Lodha, and fourth-year medical students Jennifer Chu and John Reuter enjoy the 10th annual Med Ball March 10 at the Millennium Hotel St. Louis.

Washington University’s sports medicine specialists will coordinate care at the NCAA Division I Men’s Midwest Regional March 23-25 in St. Louis.

Washington University joined a consortium of leading U.S. scientific and medical institutions March 19 to warn the U.S. Congress that persistent flat funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Investigators at the Silvio Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders at the School of Medicine are recruiting schizophrenia patients and their siblings for a study to determine whether subtle differences in brain structure can predict who is at risk for developing the illness.

Washington University today joined a consortium of leading scientific and medical institutions around the country to warn Congress that persistent flat-funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Following today’s Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS Committee hearing on funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington University and the eight other institutions issued a report at a Capitol Hill press conference on funding for U.S. medical research.

David Murray, M.D., pediatric anesthesiologist and director of the Clinical Simulation Center, has been named the Loeb Professor at the School of Medicine.

The basketball teams still need to play their way in, but a team of physicians already knows they’ll be on hand for the NCAA basketball tournament’s regional championship next weekend in St. Louis. The sports medicine specialists in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine will coordinate care at the NCAA Division I Men’s Midwest Regional March 23-25 at the Edward Jones Dome.

A team of investigators at the School of Medicine and other centers around the United States is evaluating dietary supplements to determine if they can prevent some of the damage from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness in Americans over the age of 65.