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Researchers are investigating the effects of weight loss and physical training on quality of life, physical function and bone strength.

“We hope that this knowledge will lead to novel therapies that could increase fat absorption in infants and decrease obesity in adults,” he says.

Scientists’ work could spark the development of drugs that can offer the same benefits as steroids without the many potentially serious side effects.

He died Oct. 9 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; he taught radiology courses at the medical school from 1968-2001.

Researchers have developed a technique that provides a more carefully controlled radiation oncology dosages with less damage to nearby healthy tissues.

Photo by Bob BostonAward-winners Lee Epstein and Eugene M. Johnson Jr. greet each other at the recent Faculty Achievement Awards Ceremony.

Researchers are working to identify these changes so that it might be possible to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.

Photo by Bob BostonDean Larry J. Shapiro welcomes Sen. Kit Bond, who was visiting the Medical Campus to discuss technology transfer.

Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D., gives that advice to medical students and postdoctoral fellows aiming to become independent researchers. “Work hard, exceed people’s expectations and you’ll be successful,” he continues. “We are often limited most by constraints we place on ourselves.” That philosophy helped Yokoyama become a two-time Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, the Sam J. […]

Carol S. North was camping in rural Missouri with her two Great Danes on Sept. 11, 2001. Shortly after the hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reporters started calling. Soon she had been tracked down and brought back to town. To understand why the media immediately went looking for North […]