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Research on alcoholism and disorders that tend to occur with it will be presented by national experts at the fifth annual Guze Symposium on Alcoholism. The symposium is dedicated to the late Samuel B. Guze, M.D., a pioneer in alcoholism research, who served 18 years as vice chancellor for medical affairs and president of the Washington University Medical Center.

JostR. Gilbert Jost, M.D., the Elizabeth Mallinckrodt Professor and head of Radiology at the School of Medicine, has been named chairman of the board of directors of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The society is an organization of more than 37,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists and related scientists.

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Sometimes, the innocence of youth is captured in a moment; other times, in a place. For Abby S. Hollander, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, that place was — and is — summer camp. While growing up, Hollander spent many summers as a camper and counselor at Camp New Moon, tucked among pine trees in the […]

Researchers report that people with low overall anxiety levels were more apt to ignore symptoms of rectal cancer for long periods of time.

Genetic variations in a specific protein may be a significant cause of human depression, University researchers say.

The researchers found some regular-strength preparations contain as much as 6.5 parts per million of fluoride, well over the 4 ppm maximum allowed.

Photo by Robert BostonUniversity and city officials celebrate the groundbreaking of the nonprofit Center of Research, Technology & Entrepreneurial Exchange.

“This provides confirmation of the potential benefits of plaque-clearing treatments and also gets us rethinking our theories,” says senior author David H. Holtzman. More medical news

Carrine Blank/WUSTL PhotoA WUSTL scientist suggests that Cyanobacteria arose in freshwater environments rather than in the sea.A geomicrobiologist at Washington University in St. Louis has proposed that evolution is the primary driving force in the early Earth’s development rather than physical processes, such as plate tectonics. Carrine Blank, Ph.D., Washington University assistant professor of geomicrobiology in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, studying Cyanobacteria – bacteria that use light, water, and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and biomass – has concluded that these species got their start on Earth in freshwater systems on continents and gradually evolved to exist in brackish water environments, then higher salt ones, marine and hyper saline (salt crust) environments.