School of Medicine

The School of Medicine has received a five-year, $4.6 million grant to establish an interdisciplinary career development training program for physical and occupational therapists. The grant is from the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Peanut-butter staves off starvation (week of Sept. 5) • Self-managing diabetes (week of Sept. 12) • Genes and blood thinners (week of Sept. 19) • Dangers of crib bumper pads (week of Sept. 26)

A resistance gene that allows bacteria to beat an important class of antibiotics has started to appear in microorganisms taken from Midwestern patients, according to researchers at the School of Medicine. Less than a decade ago, scientists first noticed the BlaKPC gene in bacteria taken from East Coast patients.

Daniel P. Schuster, M.D., professor of medicine and of radiology, died unexpectedly Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. He was 57.

Helen M. Aff-Drum, associate professor emerita of clinical pediatrics and a clinical professor from 1938-2002, died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. She was 99.

Casey L. Moulson, research instructor in medicine, died suddenly Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. She was 36.

If a cervical tumor glows brightly in a PET scan, it’s apt to be more dangerous than dimmer tumors, according to results a new School of Medicine study.

A School of Medicine study suggests that the most commonly prescribed anti-diabetes drug could potentially improve pregnancy outcomes in women with insulin resistance.

An enriched peanut-butter mixture given at home is successfully promoting recovery in large numbers of starving children in Malawi, research by Mark Manary, M.D., shows.

Although bumper pads are theoretically designed to prevent injury to a baby while in the crib or bassinet, the risk of accidental death or injury to an infant from using them outweighs their possible benefits, according to a new study by pediatric researchers at the School of Medicine. In the study, which appears in the September 2007 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers reviewed three U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission databases for deaths related to crib bumpers and crib-related injuries from 1985-2005.