School of Medicine

Photo by Tim ParkerRandall S. Jotte shows Tondra Holman how to secure her 1-year-old daughter, Kenisha, in a car seat.A University program provides car and booster seats to Missouri children at the highest risk for motor vehicle injury and death.

“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.

“To our knowledge, this is the first probe of its kind that allows us to actually see in a living system where, when and how proteins are activated,” first author says.

The first seminar of a series funded by the University’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values will be March 25.

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