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| Study links superbug to low-income, crowded households Area kids carry drug-resistant germ (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12217.html) Aug. 26, 2008 -- A drug-resistant germ was found in children tested in the St. Louis metropolitan area by researchers at the School of Medicine. Demographic analyses showed that children carrying the superbug were associated with a low socioeconomic status, defined as enrollment in Medicaid and living in crowded households. |
| Mold, mosquitoes follow flood Flooded areas are now faced with a second wallop of mold, mosquitoes (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12058.html) July 21, 2008 -- The waters are receding, but the consequences of flooding in surrounding areas are only beginning to surface. These consequences are not just in physical and financial damage, but major indoor and outdoor health threats to children and their families, including disease-carrying mosquitoes and allergy-irritating mold. |
| Research recognition Burroughs Wellcome Fund recognizes three for infectious diseases research (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11909.html) June 12, 2008 -- The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) has recognized three researchers at the School of Medicine for their studies of infectious diseases. Instructor Jeffrey Henderson will receive the BWF 2008 Career Award for Medical Scientists. Assistant professors David Wang and Dong Yu will each receive a 2008 BWF Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award. |
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| Bradley P. Stoner Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts and Sciences (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/494.html) Dr. Stoner, who joined the Infectious Disease division in 1995, holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences. He studied anthropology at Harvard University and McGill University, and received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. He completed residency ... Expertise: anthropology, public health, medicine, sexually transmitted diseases, biomedicine, medical anthropology, anthropology of public health, … Direct contact: (314) 935-5673 / bstoner@wustl.edu |
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| Richard Chole Lindburg Professor and head of otolaryngology (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/702.html) Chole is known for developing the oto-endoscopic camera and a prosthetic device that functions as a replacement for middle ear bones damaged by injury or infection. His current research aims to understand the mechanisms which are operant in the pathophysiology of inflammatory osteolysis in the middle ... Expertise: bacteriology, bone biology, inflammation, hearing, signal transduction Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu |
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| David Clifford Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/704.html) 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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| Samuel Stanley Director of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/603.html)
Stanley directs the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), funded by a $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The center's mission is to support basic and translational research in critical areas ... Expertise: biodefense, infectious diseases Media assistance: (314) 935-5217 / joeangeles@wustl.edu |
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| Joseph Ackerman William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Physical Chemistry in Arts & Sciences (http://mednews.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/496.html)
Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D. is William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Chemistry and chair of the chemistry department. His work is concerned primarily with the development and application of magnetic resonance spectroscopic and imaging techniques for the study of functional biophysical and physiologic ... Expertise: magnetic resonance techniques, spectroscopic techniques, imaging techniques, functional biophysical, physiologic events, intact biological systems, isolated cell preparations, … Direct contact: (314) 935-6593 / ackerman @wuchem.wustl.edu |
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| Study: Failed Genzyme drug may fight West Nile
Boston Globe and 1 others Aug. 5, 2008 -- A failed AIDS drug helped fight West Nile virus in mice, suggesting it might also work in humans against the brain-infecting malady for which there's no vaccine or cure, a WUSTL study showed. The study led by WUSTL infectious diseases professor Robyn Klein was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
| 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. |
| Invasive Mosquito Species Found in Midwest
Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 32 others Sept. 27, 2005 -- A species of mosquito common in the eastern U.S. and capable of carrying the West Nile virus has made its way to the Midwest for the first time, a finding made by WUSTL junior chemistry major Stephanie Gallitano. Gallitano, WUSTL biology professor Jonathan Chase and Gallitano's mentor and postdoctoral fellow James Vonesh comment. |
| A new approach to fighting flu
Philadelphia Inquirer and 17 others June 22, 2005 -- Article on a Philadelphia scientist who is working on a virulent Southeast Asian flu strain that is killing birds and threatens to start a flu pandemic. He is testing a prototype vaccine that could play a critical role in protecting people from the flu — especially against a lethal pandemic strain. Some experts believe it could lead to a long-lasting shot that might make annual flu clinics a thing of the past. WUSTL researcher Andrew Pekosz talks about the positive results his own team has had and said he hoped their vaccine would be ready for human trials in a year. |
| National Institutes of Health funds regional research center at Colorado State
Associated Press State & Local Wire and 48 others June 2, 2005 -- The NIH awarded a $40 million grant to Colorado State University for a regional center to fight animal-to-human diseases such as West Nile and hantavirus. The Rocky Mountain center will be one of 10 regional consortiums, including WUSTL, funded by the NIH to research threats from infectious diseases and bioterror agents. |
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