School of Medicine

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 School of Medicine has assumed ownership and governance of a portion of CID’s programs and will continue to advance the institute’s mission.

Photo by Bob BostonTimothy J. Eberlein, director of the Siteman Cancer Center, introduces Lance Armstrong.More than 1,300 people packed into the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park to see Armstrong and his Tour of Hope teammates.

He is the recipient of the 2003 Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education.

A University study “directly compares simple word reading across the age range from schoolchildren to adulthood,” said Bradley L. Schlaggar.

At the University, J. Perren Cobb is an associate professor of surgery and director of the Cellular Injury and Adaptation Laboratory.

“If this works out and we’re able to apply it in humans, we could be on our way to producing a major improvement,” principal investigator says.

The School of Medicine is also planning a six-level, 700-car parking garage above the MetroBus Transit Station.

Numerous small studies have suggested that the over-the-counter dietary supplement DHEA may reverse several effects of aging.