Anti-inflammatory drug’s potentially deadly side effect found to be rare
Scientists have completed an extensive study of more than 3,000 patients who received a promising anti-inflammatory drug, natalizumab, that was linked to three cases of a serious brain infection in large clinical trials halted in early 2005.
Girl inspires family to get on fitness track
A program designed by the Weight Management Center at the School of Medicine and the YMCA of Chesterfield has helped the Garcia family from Chesterfield lose roughly 105 pounds. The Family Lifestyle Intervention Program (FLIP) is designed to show families how to get healthy together through supervised exercise, counseling and education.
Study: Diabetic hearts live on high-fat ‘diet’
Such a “diet” helps make cardiovascular disease the most common killer of diabetic patients, according to a recently published School of Medicine study.
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New center arises from success of radioactive-implant therapy
Simon Powell & Jeff Michalski have announced the appointment of Perry W. Grigsby, M.D., professor of radiation oncology, as the center’s director.
Saudi health-care execs study management
Photo by Robert BostonParticipants in the School of Medicine’s Executive master in health administration program play the “Red Bead Game.”The two-year executive master in health administration program was created specifically for 18 participants from the Riyadh-based King Fahad Medical City.
Rhesus genome sequencing to help scientists in research
Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine were major contributors to the monkey’s genome, made publicly available this month.
Patients wanted for studies of polycystic kidney disease treatment
Small-scale preliminary trials suggested that careful control of blood pressure could possibly delay or even prevent kidney failure in patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which affects more than 600,000 people in the United States.
What do Undergraduates Gain from a Research Experience?
Washington University has a long tradition of undergraduate participation in research, one developed further by programs created by Sarah Elgin, Ph.D., professor of biology; biochemistry and molecular biophysics; and education in Arts & Sciences with financial support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Founder Events and Speciation: Mayr’s Most Misrepresented and Misunderstood Legacy to Speciation Theory
An evolutionary and population biologist at Washington University in St. Louis says that Ernst Mayr’s theory of genetic revolution has been illustrated nicely in recent years in human genetic epidemiology and population biology studies. Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, said that there is an extensive documentation of genetic interaction over the past few years including his own genetic epidemiology studies of coronary artery disease (CAD).
Scientists find receptor protein that synchronizes fruit fly’s internal clock
Neuroscientists identified a receptor for pigment-dispersing factor protein, which had previously been recognized as helping keep different internal “clocks” synchronized.
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