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Washington University Medical School

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    IUD, Implants More Effective Birth Control Than Pill, Patch or Ring, New Study Shows

    If you don't want to get knocked up unexpectedly, your best bet, according to a new study out of Washington University Medical School, is a long-term method of contraception, namely an IUD or an implant. Either one of these methods is twenty times more effective than shorter-term methods like the Pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Why There Are No Crashes on Your Brain's Information Superhighway

    F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." In a less metaphysical sense, the sign of a well-working brain is the ability of multiple networks to work at the same ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    New Drug Chemo = Dead Cancer Cells

    You know why leukemia patients sometimes have to get bone marrow transplants? It's because the cancer cells are far more resistant to chemotherapy when they're embedded in the bone marrow. It would be so much easier to get the little buggers if you could somehow herd them into the bloodstream, where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Wash. U. Doctors Begin Using New Drug-Free Cure for Depression

    Electroshock therapy is like a relic from bad fifties science fiction (and sounds scary as hell to boot -- though we admit our opinion, just like everyone else's, has been strongly influenced by the therapy scenes in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). Pills make you feel like all you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Medical Catfight: PETA Sinks Claws into Wash. U.'s Pediatrics Program

    There are a few skills every aspiring pediatrician needs to master. Some, such as remaining straight-faced while insisting that a shot won't hurt, are relatively easy to pick up. Others, like intubating an infant -- a notoriously difficult procedure that involves inserting a plastic tube into a baby ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Wash. U. Scientists Discover Reason for Stuttering is in the Genes

    Not even Geoffrey Rush and an Oscar can cure your stuttering problem.​If everything you know about stuttering comes from movies such as last year's Oscar-winner The King's Speech, you may be forgiven for believing the speech disorder is the result of a sad childhood and a profound lack of self ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Want to Avoid Breast Cancer? Stop Drinking

    image viaThis may not be such a good idea after all.​A new study out of Washington University Medical School shows that women with a family history of breast cancer have a greater risk of developing the disease themselves the more they drink. That's right: Not only do you have to get felt up r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Wash. U. Researchers May Have Discovered First Step in Preventing Cerebral Palsy

    image viaPhilip Verghese​Five years ago, a group of researchers at Washington University Medical School discovered that elevated levels of an enzyme called Nmnat1 could prevent nerve damage. This got Philip Verghese, a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. David Holtzman's neurology lab think ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Scientists Finger New Advances in Prostate Research

    image viaProstate cancer has a ribbon, too. But be careful: That's light blue, not plain old blue, which boosts awareness for, among many other things, sex slavery, child abuse, bullying, hydranencephaly and chronic fatigue syndrome.​It's October, which means a proliferation of pink ribbons, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Wash. U. Scientists Reverse Effects of Type 2 Diabetes -- in Mice

    image viaA weeklong series of injections for this mouse can reverse the effects of months of bad eating. Can the same happen for humans?​For most people, a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes means a lifetime sentence to a regimen of insulin and monitoring for some of the disease's nastiest side effe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    The Six Best Crawfish Snuff Videos (Excluding Our Own)

    ​As we reported in this week's feature, "Stupid People Tricks: The raw crawfish conundrum," it's become something of a trend for people to film themselves -- or get filmed by their friends/enablers -- eating live crawfish and posting the results on YouTube. It's unknown how many of these dumbs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Wash. U. Docs Can Tell You What Happened Last Time You Blacked Out

    image viaWhere did it go? The researchers at Wash. U. know.​This is a special message for all you folks out there who occasionally drink to excess. A team of researchers at Washington University Medical School has figured out what happened to you last time you blacked out! OK, they can't expl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    New Wash. U. Study Detects Super-Early Signs of Alzheimer's

    image viaDr. Yvette I. Sheline​If you're genetically disposed to develop Alzheimer's, researchers at Washington University Medical School have some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is, they've recently discovered that your brain starts functioning differently even before it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Wash. U. Researcher Plans to Use Bee Venom to Stop Pregnancy, HIV

    image viaDr. Sam Wickline, killer of sperm and HIV.​We've known for years now that unprotected sex can lead to both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. We've also known that condoms do a pretty good, but by no means perfect, job of blocking sperm and the HIV virus. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Barnes Hospital to Patients: We Don't Want You Back

    image viaY'all don't come back here, ya hear?​You'd think that once you're discharged from the hospital, you're no longer sick. Right? But a 2009 study by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that in 2004, one in five Medicare beneficiaries was readmitted to the hospital within ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Wash. U. Researchers Discover Smoking Won't Give You Cancer -- Genetics Will

    image via​If you paid any attention at all in your elementary-school health class, you'd know by now that smoking a lot leads to lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). But what leads some people to smoke more than others? An international team of researchers, led by two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Latest Lucky Stimulus Recipient Wash. U. Gets $14.3 Million for Genomic Data Center

    Image sourceThe little green and purple spots are breast cancer genes. The federal government just gave Wash. U. $14.3 million to track down more cancer genes.​A $14.3 million stimulus grant to Washington University Medical School's center for genomics in the Central West End will create 350 new j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Video: Life at the Lou's Funniest Med School

    Unreal’s culling last week of the cream of Washington University Medical School’s student YouTube videos, we have been informed, was incomplete. A commenter identified only as "Andy" directed our attention to this video as a finer example of Wash. U.’s wit. Sigh. Now we really wish we’d suck ... More >>

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    Girl, Interrupted

    Eighteen-year-old Amy Walker was abandoned in a hospital parking lot, slumped over her steering wheel. It was the first time she had tried heroin — and the last.

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Getting Burned

    A North St. Louis medical-waste incinerator has spewed dioxin for a decade. Nearby residents say it's time to fight the fire.

  • News

    December 29, 1999

    Rollin' on the River

    Inside St. Louis' growing rave culture, where the music is loud, the vibe is ecstatic and the kids are alright

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