Sciatica nerve pain study seeks volunteers
School of Medicine researchers are testing the effectiveness of an investigational drug for the treatment of this neuropathic pain.
Diabetic heart complications is focus of $14 million grant
The grant will establish a University center that will develop better ways to prevent and treat heart disease in diabetics.
Breast cancer patients benefit from art program
Photo by Tim Parker(From left) Sam, Dylan and Ashley Mopkins showcase the scarves they made for their mom at the Arts as Healing program.It offers patients’ children the opportunity to take an active, artistic role in the healing process while providing a group support network.
Genomic analysis offers trauma treatment tool
Such analysis may one day be a primary diagnostic tool for physicians deciding on a treatment course for trauma and other critically ill patients.
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Solving the genetics puzzle
Gesturing as if turning sections of a large object over his head, Michael A. Province, Ph.D., tries to communicate the scope of his research field. “It’s like we’re all manipulating different parts of a huge, multidimensional Rubik’s cube,” he says. By “we,” Province means the worldwide community of geneticists, biostatisticians, physicians and molecular biologists who […]
Highly adaptable genome in gut bacterium key to intestinal health
A bacterium that lives in the human gut adaptively shifts more than a quarter of its genes into high gear when its host’s diet changes from sugar to complex carbohydrates. This not only allows the bacteria to survive rapidly changing nutrient conditions but also helps maintain the stability of the gut’s highly complex microbial society, according to WUSM researchers.
Sciatica pain study seeks volunteers
Researchers at the School of Medicine are testing the effectiveness of an investigational drug for the treatment of sciatica pain. Sciatica involves pain in the lower back and hip that radiates down the thigh into the leg.
Bipolar disorder in kids often confused with ADHD
Bipolar disorder is often hard to diagnose in children, and it is easy to mistake the disorder’s manic phase for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, warns Joan Luby, a child psychiatrist at the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital. Learn more about pediatric bipolar disorder in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.
Genomic analysis to become tool for studying trauma patients
Genomic analysis may one day be a primary diagnostic tool for physicians deciding on a course of treatment for trauma and other critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to a new study by a national collaboration of more than 70 physicians and scientists.
Breast cancer vaccine may be on the horizon
Physicians believe a vaccine-induced immune response could be used to supplement other cancer therapies or to immunize high-risk people.
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