School of Medicine

“He manages to combine superb listening skills with a critical yet thoughtful and mature approach,” says Leslie Kahl, M.D.

Glucocorticoids are critical for treating many afflictions; research now reveals why these commonly used drugs have such dangerous side effects.

The Alzheimer’s expert has also been named the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology.

It was a major step forward in a plan begun more than a decade ago to launch a nationally prominent biomedical engineering department.

Evidence implies that even among heavy smokers, a genetic component puts some people more at risk for lung cancer than others.

Findings by teams of University scientists appear in two papers in the Jan. 13 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Medical school researchers find that chemotherapy given at the same time as radiation treatment nearly doubles the risk of esophagitis.

Walter W. Barker, an instructor in the School of Art for 12 years and a 1948 alumnus of the school, died Thursday, May 13, 2004, of pancreatic cancer at his home in Greens-boro, N.C. He was 82. Bell, 80 Susanne (Susi) Bell, librarian at the Gaylord Music Library from 1983-1993, died Wednesday, April 28, 2004, […]

The analysis, published in a recent issue of the journal Nature, revealed that the chromosome has about 1,150 genes and 940 so-called pseudogenes.

Photo by Bob BostonBrian Rawls wins the Guiding Star Award at the Clinical Employee Recognition Reception hosted by the Faculty Practice Plan.