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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.

Such a “diet” helps make cardiovascular disease the most common killer of diabetic patients, according to a recently published School of Medicine study. More medical news

Simon Powell & Jeff Michalski have announced the appointment of Perry W. Grigsby, M.D., professor of radiation oncology, as the center’s director.

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.

Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine were major contributors to the monkey’s genome, made publicly available this month.

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.

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.

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).

School of Medicine researchers identified an alteration in heart cell connections when they studied muscle samples from the heart-transplant patients.

He’s the head of the cerebrovascular disease section of the Department of Neurology and a professor of neurological surgery and of radiology.