Medicaid enrollment growth higher in urban areas, new study finds
Enrollment in Medicaid grew more rapidly in metropolitan areas than in rural areas in states that did not expand the program under the Affordable Care Act, according to new research from the Brown...
View ArticleOnline database aims to collect, organize research on cancer mutations
The body of knowledge on cancer genomics is massive and ever-expanding. But this wealth of potentially critical information is far less likely to be of help to patients if it is inaccessible to the...
View Article‘Mini-guts’ offer clues to pediatric GI illness
Using immature stem cells to create a miniature model of the gut in the laboratory, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh have...
View ArticleEarly signs of anxiety, depression may be evident in newborns
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Rogers%20rs-FC%20.mp3 Early predictors of anxiety and depression may be evident in the brain even at birth, suggests a study at Washington University...
View ArticleInvigorated Supplier Diversity Initiative strengthens minority-owned...
Stephanie Smith (right), Washington University manager of supplier diversity, meets with Sondra Rotty, senior project manager with general contractor Tarlton at Bryan Hall. (Photo: Joe...
View ArticleDakota Access pipeline focus of Buder Center symposium
One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders will advance the way for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota to move forward. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, tribes across the...
View ArticleStudent launches site celebrating immigrant entrepreneurs
Olin Business School student Jordan Gonen launched CelebrateImmigrants.us in response to the executive order suspending immigration from seven nations. Studies show that 40 percent of America’s Fortune...
View ArticleA global community of scholars
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has spoken out recently regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the executive order signed by President Trump on Jan. 27. In both of those...
View Article$4 million funds study of sickle cell disease in teens, adults
Over the past few decades, therapies for sickle cell disease have shifted this inherited blood disorder from its status as a fatal pediatric disease to a serious but manageable condition. But with the...
View ArticleDrug combination effective against chikungunya arthritis in mice
Combining a drug for rheumatoid arthritis with one that targets the chikungunya virus can eliminate the signs of chikungunya arthritis in mice in the disease’s earliest stage, according to researchers...
View ArticleHomans help families with support for the Brown School
Christine and Scott Homan Washington University in St. Louis has named the Homan Research Suite in Hillman Hall and the Homan Garden on the building’s northwest side following a $2 million commitment...
View Article‘The Content of Our Caricature’
Comics have long flown beneath the scholarly radar. But recent years have brought new attention, and increasing sophistication, to the academic analysis of comics and cartooning. In 2014, Rebecca...
View ArticleWashU Experts: The First 100 Days
From left, presidential candidate Donald Trump greets Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, his wife, Risa Zwerling Wrighton, Student Union President Kenneth Sng and Graduate Professional Council President...
View ArticleUniversity concludes investigation of complaint submitted by women’s soccer team
Today, Washington University in St. Louis announced the conclusion of an investigation into a Dec. 14, 2016 complaint submitted by the university’s women’s soccer team. Following is a statement from...
View ArticleThe power of tea
A compound found in green tea could have lifesaving potential for patients with multiple myeloma and amyloidosis, who face often-fatal medical complications associated with bone-marrow disorders,...
View ArticleAlbright, Hadley to discuss Middle East policy Wednesday
Albright (left) and Hadley Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley will be at Washington University in St. Louis on Wednesday, Feb. 8, for a...
View ArticleYo-yo to wow crowd at Lunar New Year
Yo-yo choreographer Kevin Wu (right) demonstrates Chinese yo-yo with performer Michael Lee. Washington University in St. Louis senior Kevin Wu went from Chinese yo-yo novice to choreographer in two...
View ArticleEffort to improve radiation therapy for veterans receives nearly $4 million
In a national effort to improve and standardize radiation therapy for U.S. veterans with cancer, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has contracted with Washington University School of Medicine in...
View ArticleNICU study highlights importance of sound
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/NICU%20noise%20.mp3 Premature babies often spend the first several weeks of life in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), where, ideally, they are...
View Article‘A story of moral corruption’
Caroline Sullivan as Lady Macbeth. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air — From ‘Macbeth,’ Act I, Scene I The war is won, the...
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