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The director of the Siteman Cancer Center, he will serve as editor in chief of the monthly Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Photo by Kimberly LeydigRepresentatives from occupational therapy weigh backpacks to determine if they’re too heavy for children to be carrying.

The Division of Urologic Surgery will host a talk by cancer survivor Richard Howe Nov. 12 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

Considered one of the founders of modern psychiatric genetics, “Our institution and psychiatry in general are significantly diminished by his loss.”

Jane Garbutt is directoring the Washington University Pediatric and Adolescent Ambulatory Research Consortium.

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.

They made the commitment to honor and thank local physicians with clinical excellence and to encourage teaching that excellence.

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 […]

Development of a gel-like material might eventually mean the end of bifocals and contact lenses for people who suffer from presbyopia.

Studies have looked at whether revving up part of the immune system can relieve symptoms of the chronic inflammatory disease.