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States with fertility treatment insurance coverage have fewer births
Fourteen states now mandate partial or comprehensive health insurance coverage of fertility treatment. These mandates have resulted in more women using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Studies...
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Studies examine diet’s role in prostate cancer
Audio download available A team of nutrition researchers and urologic surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Siteman Cancer Center is conducting two studies to...
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Washington People: John C. Clohisy
Clohisy enjoys improving quality of life for patients with hip, knee disorders Robert Boston John C. Clohisy, MD (right), goes over a patient's hip X-ray with Charles L. Lehmann, MD, an orthopedic...
View ArticleCampus Sustainability Week at medical school offers something for everyone
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will celebrate Campus Sustainability Week Oct. 17-21 with various speakers and information stations around the campus.Campus Sustainability Week —...
View ArticleFellowship offers executive management training
Washington University School of Medicine is launching a new fellowship designed to give participants an inside look at the operation and governance of an academic medical center.The Executive...
View ArticleChildren’s Discovery Institute funds new projects
The Children’s Discovery Institute has approved funding for three large-scale research initiatives focusing on heart and lung diseases in children.Together, the projects will receive $1.5 million over...
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Recommendation against PSA test goes too far
A draft recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calling for an end to routine PSA testing for healthy men age 50 and older goes too far, says a prostate cancer expert at the Siteman...
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High-dose vitamin E increases prostate cancer risk
High-dose vitamin E supplements increase the risk of prostate cancer, results of a large clinical trial show. The study’s findings, published Oct. 12, 2011, in the Journal of the American Medical...
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University receives $3 million for new diabetes research center
Washington University in St. Louis has received a five-year, $3 million grant to establish a new center to develop better ways to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients, including...
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Brain scans reveal drugs’ effects on attention
David Gutmann, MD, PhDScientists have developed a way to use PET scans to test if drugs are helping mice that have been genetically engineered to have a form of attention deficit. In the brain of the...
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Researchers block morphine’s itchy side effect
Audio available Opioid drugs such as morphine interact with receptors on nerve cells. The drug relieves pain by interacting with one form of the receptor (MOR1) and causes itching when it interacts...
View ArticleHealth Happening wellness fair Oct. 28
Fall fair focuses on walkingPlan to visit this fall’s Health Happening health and wellness fair, titled “Walk this Way.”The fair will be held from 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the McDonnell Pediatric...
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Cell Biology and Physiology celebrates centennial
Becker Medical LibraryJoseph Erlanger, who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1944, was the founding head of the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. He is pictured in front of a...
View ArticleApply now for Bear Cub grants
Washington University's Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from university researchers who want to move inventions from their laboratories toward commercialization.The fund supports...
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The healing power of music
Robert BostonFlautist Nancy Donnelly and pianist Mary Sutherland perform in the Center for Advanced Medicine.People visiting the Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) on the campus of Washington...
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Outlook magazine now digitally archived
Outlook's first edition, October 1964.From its humble beginning as a mimeographed, five-page news-sheet to today’s four-color, 36-page, high-quality glossy magazine and multimedia online presence,...
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Washington People: Andrey Shaw
Former music major studies immune system, kidney problems Robert Boston Shuba Srivatsan (left), a graduate student, and Andrey Shaw, MD, look at some recent protein expression data that Srivatsan...
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Chest X-rays don’t reduce lung cancer deaths
National Cancer InstituteA major U.S. study shows that annual chest X-rays to screen for lung cancer do not reduce the risk of dying from the disease, even in smokers or former smokers.More than...
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Beware of Halloween contact lenses
Decorative contact lenses can lead to infection, vision loss Audio available Redness and infection in the eye of a patient who wore decorative contact lenses without a prescription. Mary K. Migneco,...
View ArticleSchool of Medicine Dean's Update held Oct. 31, Nov. 2
Larry J. Shapiro, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, will host the annual Dean’s Update for all employees Oct. 31 and Nov. 2.Shapiro will discuss the...
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