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Treatment for retired football players
Washington University Orthopedics participating in NFL spine treatment program
June 30,
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The National Football League has announced a new spine treatment program for retired players, and orthopedics specialists at the School of Medicine have been chosen to participate. K. Daniel Riew, the Mildred B. Simon Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and chief of the cervical spine service for Washington University Orthopedics, is one of five U.S. spine specialists selected to participate in the new NFL program.
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Heart valve 'redo'
Four out of 106 heart replacement valves from pig hearts failed
June 29,
2009 -- Pig heart valves used to replace defective aortic valves in human patients failed much earlier and more often than expected, says a report from cardiac surgeons at the School of Medicine. This is the first report to demonstrate this potential problem, the researchers say.
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Understanding dementia
$10 million grant awarded for healthy aging and Alzheimer's studies
June 25,
2009 -- Alzheimer's disease researchers at the School of Medicine have won renewal of a grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to study the differences between people who remain mentally spry in the golden years of life and those who develop dementia.
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Steven Teitelbaum
Wilma and Roswell Messing professor of pathology and immunology
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Physician-scientist Steven L. Teitelbaum, M.D., is a leading spokesperson on stem cell science for Washington University and has frequently explained the way the technology works and the lifesaving medical advances that may be made possible by stem cell technology. His own research centers bone diseases ...
Expertise: Stem Cell Research
Direct contact: (314) 286-0120
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westerhousej@wustl.edu
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Ross Brownson
Professor
A leading expert in chronic disease prevention and an expert in the area of applied epidemiology, Ross Brownson is regarded as one of the great intellectual, educational, and practice leaders in the field of evidence-based public health.
Expertise: Chronic disease prevention, evidence-based public health, policy effects on physical activity and obesity
Direct contact: 314-362-9641
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rbrownson@wustl.edu
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Debra Haire-Joshu
Professor314-362-9554
Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.
Expertise: Health policy, obesity and diabetes prevention in underserved populations, public health
Direct contact: 314-362-9554
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djoshu@wustl.edu
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Matthew Kreuter
Professor
Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.
Expertise: Health communication, cancer prevention and control, health disparities
Direct contact: 314-935-3701
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mkreuter@wustl.edu
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Ramesh Raghavan
Assistant professor of Social Work
Ramesh Raghavan's clinical, policy and administrative expertise in public health and psychiatry fuel his research interests in mental health services and policies for children in the child welfare system. Prior to joining the faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the School of ...
Expertise: public health, mental health services, children in the child welfare system, health policy, Medicaid
Direct contact: 314-935-4469
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raghavan@wustl.edu
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David Holtzman: Attacking Alzheimer's With a New Test for Amyloid Beta
U.S. News & World Report online
July 1,
2009 -- WUSTL neuroscientist David Holtzman and colleagues have devised a test that shows whether an experimental medication has a chance of working in Alzheimer's patients.
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Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson: Taking Cancer's Genetic Measure
U.S. News & World Report online
July 1,
2009 -- WUSTL biochemists Elaine Mardis and Richard Wilson helped decode the human genome and are now working to find genetic mutations associated with acute myeloid leukemia.
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Patterns: Drinking Age Affects Bingeing, to a Point
The New York Times
June 30,
2009 -- A new study in The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds that as the drinking age has gone up, binge drinking has gone down -- except among college students. Includes comments by study leader WUSTL psychiatry professor Richard Grucza.
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Jobs Had Liver Transplant
The Wall Street Journal
June 22,
2009 -- Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a controversial liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may work part-time initially. WUSTL pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery professor William Hawkins and surgery professor William Chapman both comment.
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Study: 'Depression Gene' Doesn't Predict the Blues
Time.com
June 17,
2009 -- Are some people hardwired to get the blues? Scientists have long believed that a tendency toward melancholy runs in families. A new study published on June 16 in JAMA now threatens to send researchers back to the drawing board. The meta-analysis of 14 prior studies concludes that the so-called depression gene may not be associated with an elevated risk for depression, as many researchers had believed. WUSTL psychiatric geneticist Alexandre Todorov, whose 2007 peer-reviewed study was included in the JAMA piece, comments.
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