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Flu fight
Recovery act funds new flu drug discovery center at Washington University
Nov. 16,
2009 -- Scientists at the School of Medicine are investigating a new way to fight the flu. With funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, they will establish a Drug Discovery Center to identify compounds that enhance the body's natural virus-killing mechanisms to overcome the flu.
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Breathing Easier
Vitamin D's role in preventing asthma studied in pregnant women
Sept. 28,
2009 -- A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.
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Drug-free treatment for uncontrollable asthma
New procedure alleviates symptoms in people with severe asthma
May 18,
2009 -- A new drug-free treatment for asthma has been shown to be effective in an international study of patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma. The results showed statistically significant improvements in quality of life and reductions in asthma attacks and emergency room visits for patients who underwent the treatment.
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Control your DNA destiny
MSNBC.com
March 12,
2009 -- Some genetic traits are easier to defy than others. Others, such as cancer or diabetes, are not so simple to escape. Advice on how you can reduce your risk with proven tips for protecting your health from head to toe. WUSTL surgery professor Ming You, director of the Chemoprevention Program at WUSTL's Siteman Cancer Center, comments on the role heredity plays in asthma, allergies and lung cancer.
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Coated ventilator tubes cut pneumonia threat
MSNBC
and 6 others
Aug. 20,
2008 -- Ventilator tubes treated with silver to reduce infections cut the risk of pneumonia in gravely ill patients by 36 percent compared with similar, untreated tubes, according to a WUSTL study published in JAMA. WUSTL pulmonary specialist Marin Kollef and colleagues conducted the study.
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Lung patients see a new era of transplants
The New York Times
Sept. 25,
2006 -- Front page story -- A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list. Changes include who gets a lung transplant first -- people who would soon die without a transplant, but who had a good chance of surviving after one.
Another major change is that more lungs from cadavers have become available.
WUSTL transplant surgeon Alexander Patterson comments. WUSTL has one of the country's largest lung transplant programs.
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Medicare says it will pay, but patients say 'no thanks'
New York Times
and 2 others
March 3,
2006 -- To test whether federal health spending actually helps patients, Medicare has been requiring more and more of the nation's retirees to participate in clinical trials to measure the effectiveness of a growing range of treatments, before agreeing to pay for them. After seeing the clinical trial's results and the risks involved, many patients and the doctors who refer them to surgeons seemed to lose their enthusiasm for the procedure.
That first was a study of a risky but popular operation for patients with advanced emphysema, that was developed by then WUSTL surgeon Joel Cooper, who is now at U. Penn. Cooper published reports of his patients that were so promising that his medical center, Washington University, could hardly keep up with the demand. Cooper still stands by the lung volume reduction operation.
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Treatment may aid asthma sufferers
Los Angeles Times
and 61 others
Feb. 2,
2006 -- A two-drug treatment may one day help restore healthy breathing in those with asthma and chronic bronchitis, according to a WUSTL study led by researcher Michael Holtzman. Holtzman and other researchers found that some cells lining the air passages of the lungs transform into another cell type in mice and humans with those disorders, leading to the overproduction of mucus in the airways.
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