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HIV/AIDS / Infectious Disease
Approximately one million Americans are afflicted with AIDS. While treatments have progressed, there still is no cure. AIDS, however, is only one of many infectious diseases that affect the quality of life for millions of Americans every day.
Exceptional faculty and resources allow the Washington University Infectious Diseases Division to achieve both important research findings and high-quality patient care. The division provides special programs that address AIDS/HIV and STDs, among other topics.
For more information regarding infectious diseases or AIDS/HIV, read through the stories and experts listed below.
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Stanford Peng
Assistant professor of internal medicine
Peng is working to uncover the molecular and genetic underpinnings of autoimmune conditions such as lupus, inflammatory bowel disease and some forms of arthritis. His lab was the first to find firm experimental evidence supporting a radical new theory for what immune cells are like when they're not ...
Expertise: lupus, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, T cell, B cell, immunology, autoimmunity
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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David Clifford
Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology
Clifford, who is director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, is a leading expert on the neurological complications of AIDS and their treatment and management. He has also participated in studies of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Clifford is involved ...
Expertise: Neuropharmacology, HIV, AIDS, AIDS-related dementia, peripheral neuropathy, leukoencephalopathy, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu
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Wendy Auslander
Professor of Social Work
The focus of Wendy Auslander's work is health care/health behaviors, evaluation of interventions, AIDS prevention among teenagers, minority health and health promotion, family functioning, and chronic illness.
Expertise: AIDS prevention, community health, diabetes, evaluation of interventions, family, health behaviors, health care
Media assistance: (314) 935-5251 / jessica_martin@wustl.edu
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Shanti A. Parikh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences
Parikh's research focuses on local responses to national and global development interventions, particularly issues surrounding sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and gender relations. Using ethnographic and historical methods and critical theory, her current research in eastern Uganda traces ...
Expertise: East Africa, HIV/AIDS, eastern Uganda, globalization, sexuality, gender relations, social change, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-7769
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sparikh@artsci.wustl.edu
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Linda Cottler
Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry
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Linda Cottler, Ph.D., investigates the epidemiology of many psychiatric disorders including gambling, drug use -- particularly use of so-called "club" drugs such as ecstasy -- and high risk sexual behavior among drug users.
Expertise: HIV, club drugs, compulsive gambling, high risk behaviors, needle exchange programs, peer education, safe sex
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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cWIDR
WUSTL center for study of women's infectious diseases officially opens
May 5,
2008 --
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| Photo courtesy of Scott Hultgren, John Heuser and Robyn Roth |
| A micrograph reveals an E. coli bacterium (in green) that is part of a community of bacteria known as a biofilm. |
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Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis this week held opening ceremonies for a new center to study infectious diseases that preferentially affect women. The center for Women's Infectious Disease Research (cWIDR) will focus on issues such as microorganisms that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs), infections that lead to premature delivery, and potential contributing roles for microorganisms in life-threatening conditions such as cancer.
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Igniting a recall
Quick thinking by WUSM physician leads to international investigation
May 1,
2008 -- In early January, two patients undergoing kidney dialysis at St. Louis Children's Hospital had sudden life-threatening allergic reactions that caused their eyes, lips and tongues to swell, raised their heart rates and dropped their blood pressures dangerously low. After the dialysis staff treated the children with medication that relieved the symptoms, they called infectious diseases specialist Alexis Elward, who sprung into action to help determine the cause. Little did she know it would spark an international investigation into a common blood thinner and a recall of the drug from the market.
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HARRT therapy
Hearts of HIV-positive individuals recover from exertion more slowly
March 25,
2008 -- Current treatments allow most HIV-infected individuals to live healthy, productive lives, but they can also increase risk for cardiovascular problems. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have found a possible explanation. They discovered that the heart doesn't slow down as quickly after exercise in patients taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for HIV.
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Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection
The Times (London)
Jan. 29,
2008 -- News item on WUSTL medical research -- Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection at the surgical site if they are given a prosthetic implant instead of their own tissue.
The study appeared in the January issue of Archives of Surgery.
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Study Says Implants Double Risk of Infection After Breast Reconstructive Surgery
The New York Times
and 27 others
Jan. 22,
2008 -- More than one in 20 patients undergoing breast surgery later developed infections at incision sites, according to a new study, a complication that was more common than thought. Study co-authors WUSTL infectious diseases professor Margaret Olsen and WUSTL plastic and reconstructive surgery professor Keith Brandt comment.
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Plant-like protein underpins common parasites' ability to infect
DailyIndia.com (FL)
and 7 others
Jan. 10,
2008 -- WUSTL researchers led by WUSTL molecular microbiology professor David Sibley have revealed that Toxoplasma gondii, a common human parasite, uses a plant-like protein for signalling when to increase its numbers and when to be dormant. T. gondii is found in one in every four humans causing serious disease in patients with weakened immune systems.
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Scientists find potential weakness in plague germ
Scientific American
and 3 others
Jan. 26,
2007 -- The germ that caused the plague epidemic that ravaged medieval Europe has a weakness that could help make a particularly dangerous form easier to treat, according to a study published on Thursday.
There are periodic natural outbreaks of pneumonic plague like one that started in 2005 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There also is acute concern terrorists could harness the bacterium as an airborne germ warfare agent to spread pneumonic plague.
Writing in the journal Science, WUSTL scientists led by molecular microbiology professor William Goldman said experiments with mice showed that the onslaught of the bacterium slows markedly when the germ cannot use a key protein.
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Officials consider spinach labeling plan
Associated Press
and 32 others
Sept. 22,
2006 -- Federal health officials said Thursday that more explicit labeling was just one proposal under consideration for allowing fresh spinach back on the market. Others include stepped-up regulation of how spinach is grown and processed.
WUSTL pediatrics gastroenterology professor Phillip Tarr describes the illness and what people should do if they think they have the illness.
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