School of Medicine

He was one of the first African-American physicians to join the School of Medicine and was a renowned health-care policy innovator.

The former clinical instructor in the School of Dentistry died of leukemia Feb. 20.

A School of Medicine project will develop new approaches for isolating, sequencing and analyzing the genomes of “friendly” bacteria.

The University has received an $11.6 million grant to fund a Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders.

David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., is having the time of his life. And despite his passion for jazz, this time there’s not a saxophone in sight. The source of Gutmann’s zeal is the School of Medicine’s newly formed interdisciplinary team unified by his scientific crusade: unraveling the mystery of brain tumors in children with neurofibromatosis […]

Rates of celiac disease are significantly higher in patients with osteoporosis, according to School of Medicine researchers.

Photo by Robert BostonInvestigators Charles Hildebolt (right) and Dean Faulk hold a cast of the skull of the “Hobbit,” likely a new species of prehistoric humans.Medical school researchers performed a detailed comparison of the fossil’s brain case with those of other human ancestors. More medical news

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Osteoporosis, celiac disease linked (week of March 2) • Another reason to not smoke (week of March 9) • New diabetes, obesity link (week of March 16) • Quit smoking help line (week of March 23) • Preventing baseball injuries (week of March 30)

Mammograms could more frequently bear good news if researchers develop an effective breast cancer vaccine.Progress toward development of a breast cancer vaccine has been reported by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis. Physicians believe a vaccine-induced immune response could be used to supplement other cancer therapies or to immunize high-risk people against cancer.

WUSM researchers have developed new risk estimates for premature babies.If a woman goes into labor before her baby is full term, her obstetrician must make a crucial recommendation: delay labor or allow it to continue. Delivering the baby prematurely may increase the risk of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a potentially fatal condition. Now medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have generated new risk estimates for RDS that allow physicians to make delivery decisions with far greater confidence.