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Quincy Jones among recipients
Washington University to award six honorary degrees at 147th Commencement
May 1,
2008 -- Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer of women in medicine and a multimedia entrepreneur, will receive honorary degrees May 16 during Washington University's 147th Commencement ceremony. The university also will bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students during the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.
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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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Avoiding vascular calcification
Readily available treatment could help prevent heart disease in kidney patients
April 17,
2008 -- The estimated 19 million Americans living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) face a high risk of death from cardiovascular disease, usually related to high levels of blood phosphate. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have demonstrated that high blood phosphate directly stimulates calcification of blood vessels and that phosphate-binding drugs can decrease vascular calcification.
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Diane Merritt
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Diane F. Merritt, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology specializes in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. She treats gynecologic disorders of infants, children, and teens. She has an interest in congenital abnormalities of the reproductive tract, genital injuries, and pelvic endometriosis, ...
Expertise: pediatric and adolescent gynecology, hormone therapy, pubertal disorders, menopause
Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu
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Keith Hruska
Professor of nephrology
Hruska is a leader in studies of the links between the kidney and the skeleton, which can cause devastating side effects for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Kidneys and bones produce factors that support each other's development and maintenance, and when CKD damages the kidney and reduces ...
Expertise: kidney, chronic kidney disease, bone, bone weakening, adynamic bone disorder, secondary hyparathyroidism, bone morphogenetic protein
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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John Constantino
Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Child Psychiatry)
Constantino is an expert on genetic and environmental factors that influence early social development. In particular, he studies the genetic influences that contribute to autism. In other research he also is working with very young children and their parents, hoping to better understand the earliest ...
Expertise: autism, early social development, genetic influences on autistic social impairment, psychiatric disorders in children
Media assistance: (314) 286-0110 / jdryden@wustl.edu
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Michael DeBaun
Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics and Neurology
Dr. DeBaun is a professor of pediatrics, biostatistics and neurology and directs the Sickle Cell Medical Treatment and Education Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology. He received a MPH in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University ...
Expertise: overgrowth cancer predisposition syndromes, public health issues, sickle cell disease
Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu
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F. Sessions Cole
Park J. White Professor of Pediatrics
F. Sessions Cole, M.D., the Park J. White Professor of Pediatrics, is the Director of the Division of Newborn Medicine, and he oversees the 52-bed neonatal intenstive care unit (NICU) at St. Louis Childern's Hospital. His research focuses inherited infant lung diseases, surfactant protein-B deficiency, ...
Expertise: newborn medicine, genetic lung disease in infants
Media assistance: (314) 286-0119 / leydigk@wustl.edu
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Cutting Phosphate May Protect Kidney Patients From Heart Trouble
The Washington Post
and 11 others
April 24,
2008 -- Readily available phosphate-binding drugs could help prevent heart disease in people with chronic kidney disease, a new study in the the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology finds.
WUSTL researchers led by pediatric nephrology specialist Keith Hruska and pediatrics instructor Suresh Mathew comment.
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May We Scan Your Genome?
Newsweek
April 22,
2008 -- As personal genetic testing takes off, some worry that marketing is getting ahead of science.
With each new marketing push comes new criticism. Some say DNA testing doesn't belong in virtual clinics: One key issue is regulation.
WUSTL pediatrics and genetics specialist Thomas Morgan worries that the business is getting ahead of the science. "I might scare myself or reassure myself falsely based on the very limited knowledge that we have."
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Safety Alert: Crib Bumpers
Parenting
Feb. 1,
2008 -- WUSTL pediatrics professor and lead author Bradley Thach comments on an injury data analysis of crib bumpers from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The study reported that firm pads can suffocate an infant by trapping his head in the space between the bumper and the mattress.
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Obese Kids Shows Signs Of Heart Trouble
WNBC.com (NY)
and 42 others
Oct. 19,
2007 -- Obese children show early signs of heart disease, according to WUSTL medical school researchers led by pediatric cardiologist Angela Sharkey.
The study was published in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Cardiometabolic Syndrome.
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Peanut butter project helps starving children
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 16 others
Sept. 13,
2007 -- WUSTL pediatrics professor Mark Manary has spent years providing an enriched peanut butter mixture to malnourished children in the sub-Saharan country of Malawi.
It's known as a ready-to-use therapeutic food, and it has been a quantum leap in feeding malnourished children in Africa.
Manary's team, including WUSTL freshman Zachary Linneman, published a study about feeding children the peanut butter through Malawi's health-care system in Maternal and Child Nutritionthis summer.
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