Neonatal research helps determine delivery risks
University researchers have used a statistical analysis to generate new risk estimates for respiratory distress syndrome.
Prostate cancer screening practices examined
Initial results from an ongoing study evaluating the benefit of prostate cancer screening practices demonstrate that the combined use of both standard tests—the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test and the digital rectal exam (DRE)—is optimal for detecting cancer.
Effective therapies for bipolar children sought through TEAM study
Child psychiatry researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are investigating the effectiveness of several therapies for children with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness.
Obesity, Type 2 diabetes rates growing rapidly among children
The rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes among children in the U.S. is rapidly rising. Many children with Type 2 diabetes don’t even know they have the disease. Neil White, a pediatrician at WUSM and St. Louis Children’s Hospital, outlines symptoms and risk factors for diabetes in the following St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.
Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks
Scientists may have found a way to throw a wrench in the transmissions of several speed demons of the parasite world. Researchers at the School of Medicine and Harvard University have identified a protein that could help them develop drugs to stop or slow cell invasion by malaria and other parasites known as apicomplexans.
Kidneys for cash?
A study by Mark Schnitzler and a colleague study shows society could pay each donor $90,000 and easily break even.
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Fixing diabetic heart complications is focus of $14 million research grant
A five-year, $14 million grant will establish a center at the School of Medicine that will develop better ways to prevent and treat heart disease in diabetic patients. The grant was awarded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
‘Hobbit’ fossil likely represents new branch on human family tree
Photo by Robert BostonA fossil of a diminutive human nicknamed “the Hobbit” likely represents a previously unrecognized species of early humans, according to the results of a detailed comparison of the fossil’s brain case with those of humans, apes and other human ancestors.
W.M. Keck Foundation funds study of microbes
A School of Medicine project will develop new approaches for isolating, sequencing and analyzing the genomes of “friendly” bacteria.
Schizophrenia research receives boost
The University has received an $11.6 million grant to fund a Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders.
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