School of Medicine

Photo by Bob Boston In the Midst: 20 Degrees East by Joe Chelsa, is one of 10 pieces featured in the St. Louis Spatialsynergy: Transforming Space exhibit.

What are the major political issues facing health care? How do we reduce the existing significant disparities in timely access to health-care delivery? And can we prevent biomedical advances from “breaking the bank?” Prominent national experts will address those and other important issues affecting the future of medicine at the “Health Care Challenges Facing the Nation” conference Oct. 7 at Washington University Medical Center.

Eric C. Leuthardt, M.D., a Washington University neurosurgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has been named one of this year’s Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation. The distinction is awarded each year to 100 individuals under age 35 whose innovative work in technology has a profound impact on the world.

More than 80 percent of hip fracture patients don’t fully recover with traditional rehabilitation methods. That’s why WUSM researchers are testing a new approach: combining extended exercise therapy with daily use of a topical testosterone gel. Elderly men and women with recent hip fractures may be eligible to participate.

Bob BostonMore than 140 people helped raise cancer awareness for the Siteman Cancer Center and broke a world record in the process.

A competitive horseback rider growing up, William C. Chapman, M.D., thought he wanted to be a veterinarian. But when it came time to decide between treating animals or humans, Chapman was swayed by some sage advice. “I was always frustrated by the notion that, for various reasons, veterinarians sometimes have to put an animal to […]

University researchers have found that a moderate exercise regimen is just as effective as a common blood pressure drug.

“One of our most talented clinicians and teachers,” says department head Alan L. Schwartz, he “serves as a role model, clinician and educator.”

Clinicians who treat AIDS patients may be able to use the HIV protease inhibitor ritonavir to reduce bone loss.

The bacterium responsible for strep throat and other disorders appears to use a single wasplike “stinger” to spread infection.