Groundbreaking research
Photo by Bob BostonThe recent Guze Symposium on Alcoholism featured experts discussing genetic and environmental factors that predispose some people to become alcoholics.
Techniques improve lung tumor targets
Adding data from positron emission tomography scans to structural CT data significantly enhances radiologists’ abilities.
Eberlein named editor of surgery journal
The director of the Siteman Cancer Center, he will serve as editor in chief of the monthly Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
Overloaded?
Photo by Kimberly LeydigRepresentatives from occupational therapy weigh backpacks to determine if they’re too heavy for children to be carrying.
Life after prostate cancer focus of lecture
The Division of Urologic Surgery will host a talk by cancer survivor Richard Howe Nov. 12 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.
Obituary: Ted Reich, psychiatry professor, 65
Considered one of the founders of modern psychiatric genetics, “Our institution and psychiatry in general are significantly diminished by his loss.”
Pediatricians form research network
Jane Garbutt is directoring the Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Ambulatory Research Consortium.
Safety and effectiveness of blood thinners studied
A team led by School of Medicine researchers has received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Loebs establish professorship
They made the commitment to honor and thank local physicians with clinical excellence and to encourage teaching that excellence.
An unstoppable spirit
Anne H. Cross, M.D., believes anything in life that’s worthwhile is hard. “Like Winston Churchill said, ‘Never give up; never, never, never,’” she says. Cross not only embraces challenges, but she’s also inspired by them. When three of her classmates during medical training developed the debilitating and then-untreatable neurological disease multiple sclerosis (MS), Cross decided […]
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