Bright tumors, dim prospects
It doesn’t matter how small or large it is, if a cervical tumor glows brightly in a PET scan, it’s apt to be more dangerous than dimmer tumors. That’s the conclusion of a new study of cervical cancer patients at the School of Medicine. Lead author Elizabeth Kidd her colleagues, including researchers with the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, report their findings in an upcoming issue of the journal Cancer.
Keeping dancers on their toes
Photo by Robert BostonHeidi Prather, D.O., specializes in treating women with musculoskeletal problems and injured performing artists, primarily dancers.
Obituary: Spiegel, 87
Mary Jane Spiegel, a lab assistant at the School of Medicine from 1957-1986, died Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007. She was 87.
Hanging in there
Photo by Tim ParkerFirst-year medical students learn to work together at the annual Diversity Retreat, sponsored by Student Support Services and the Office of Diversity Programs.
Richard Smith to become A&S Graduate School dean
Richard J. Smith, Ph.D., the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, will become dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences July 1, 2008, when Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., dean since 1993, steps down, announced Edward S. Macias, Ph.D.
Interaction of genes, environment focus of national addiction study
School of Medicine researchers will head a national study of addiction, looking both at genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the problem.
Genetic information makes it safer to prescribe common blood thinner
Local researchers have developed an improved dosing formula for the widely prescribed anticoagulant warfarin (Coumadin) that considers variations in two key genes.
Myeloma Research Consortium joins University in search for therapies
The School of Medicine has joined the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC) to speed the development of new myeloma therapies.
Brain’s control network splits in two as children approach adulthood
Two recently discovered control networks that govern voluntary brain activity in adults start life as a single network in children.
Thousands of starving children could be restored to health with peanut-butter program
Mark Manary, professor of pediatrics, assesses patients for malnutrition at a clinic in Malawi, Africa.An enriched peanut-butter mixture given at home is successfully promoting recovery in large numbers of starving children in Malawi, according to a group of researchers at the School of Medicine. Malnutrition affects 70 percent of all Malawian children with an estimated 13 percent of children dying from it before the age of five.
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