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New venue for emergency physicians
Washington University Physicians provide Emergency Department services at newly renovated Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Sept. 11,
2008 -- Washington University faculty physicians have assumed responsibility for providing medical care in the Emergency Department at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. The addition of Washington University emergency medicine physicians continues the enhancement of clinical services at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital.
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Assessing head injuries
WUSM doctors use neurocognitive test to quickly identify concussions
Nov. 29,
2007 -- In most hospital emergency rooms, patients with head injuries typically receive computed tomography (CT) scans to assess the damage. But brain injuries that lead to concussions rarely show up as abnormalities on such scans. So Washington University physicians at Barnes Hospital's Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center have decided to go one step further. They are the only doctors in the St. Louis area who give a simple neurocognitive test to head injury patients to quickly identify concussions.
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Saving starving children
Peanut-butter program could restore health to thousands of starving children
Sept. 11,
2007 --
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| Mark Manary, professor of pediatrics, assesses patients for malnutrition at a clinic in Malawi, Africa. |
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An enriched peanut-butter mixture given at home is successfully promoting recovery in large numbers of starving children in Malawi, according to a group of researchers at the School of Medicine. Malnutrition affects 70 percent of all Malawian children with an estimated 13 percent of children dying from it before the age of five.
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