School of Medicine

When five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996, he felt he was given a death sentence. “I felt hopeless,” he said. “But I quickly learned from my doctors, thanks to cancer research, new treatments were available that weren’t around just 10 years before. I’m alive today thanks to […]

Photo by Bob BostonDavid C. and Betty Farrell cut a cake at the Oct. 30 groundbreaking ceremony for the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

“We’ve been able to visualize damaged nerve connections in living animals and follow them over time in the same animal,” David Holtzman said.

The annual workshop will take place from 8-10 a.m. March 6 at the Athletic Complex on the Hilltop Campus.

Twelve U.S. sites are participating in the study, called the Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth, or TODAY.

With a Dominican heritage, a childhood spent in Puerto Rico and a primarily American education, it’s no surprise Gregorio A. Sicard, M.D., craves variety, both in his professional and personal life. Having spent more than 30 years at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Sicard has been at the Medical Campus longer than almost […]

Medical school researchers have shown that the protein H2-DM can keep immune system T cells from erroneously assaulting the body’s own tissues.

If patients eligible for clinical trials for new treatments fail to participate, the new treatments and their potential benefits will be lost.

A new process may expedite and simplify the procedure for the estimated 400,000 Americans with an amputated limb.

Participants will be asked to complete three visits, will be paid for their time and will receive a picture of their brain.