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July 2007
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Doctors suffer from stress after medical mishaps
July 19,
2007 -- A Washington University survey shows many physicians experience stress, sleep disturbances and loss of confidence when medical errors are made. The survey highlights that physicians, in addition to their patients, may benefit from hospital openess, support and counseling after mistakes occur.
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Screenings help detect eye problems early
July 18,
2007 -- Experts recommend routine eye screening in all infants before they leave the hospital and at all well-child visits. Pediatricians look for abnormalities in the reflex of the eye, the alignment of the two eyes and how well a child responds visually to light or to objects. If your child's physician suspects a problem, he or she will refer you to a pediatric ophthalmologist for a complete eye exam.
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Dealing with bug bites
July 17,
2007 -- During the summer months many of us will be bitten by bugs. Dr. Julia Graves and Dr. Ann Martin at the School of Medicine have some advice about how to prevent and treat many types of bug bites. Most bug bites are harmless, but others need prompt medical treatment.
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Advancing the fight against breast cancer
July 13,
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| Oncologist Matthew Ellis approaches breast cancer patients like Martha Christmas with an overarching goal: To provide personalized therapy that improves outcomes and preserves quality of life. |
Over the past two decades, the range of treatments for breast cancer has improved dramatically and so have the survival statistics. Today, more than 80 percent of patients can look forward to long-term freedom from disease. But that still leaves a group of patients with a persistently poor prognosis who need more therapy than the rest. How can outcomes be improved for these women?
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Ethiopian medical students to benefit from used textbooks
June 22,
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| (Left to right) Damien Fair, Binyam Nardos, Sam Craig, Rahel Nardos, and Tracy Nicholson show the books delivered to medical students in Ethiopia. |
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Several student groups and administrators at the School of Medicine and residents at Barnes-Jewish Hospital have collected nearly 500 medical textbooks to help their counterparts in Ethiopia. The textbooks will replace outdated books at the medical school at Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University, the main teaching hospital in the country's capital city. Rahel Nardos, a native of Ethiopia and a fourth-year resident, came up with the idea after spending a week working in Addis Ababa University's hospital last year.
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Spoken word piece calls attention to hepatitis B
June 22,
2007 -- When then-students Jason Hill and Leon Scott performed a spoken word piece about health disparities and the roles of physicians during the 2004 Medical School class show, the audience was captivated by what became the highlight of the show. So when fourth-year student Kathy Lee was planning a training conference on preventing hepatitis B, she recruited Hill and Scott to create a spoken word performance piece. Spoken word is an innovative performing art that intertwines elements of rap and poetry.
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The Softness of Iron: Sculptures by Orna Ben-Ami
June 8,
2007 -- An exhibit of 29 iron sculptures by the Israeli artist Orna Ben-Ami is on display at Washington University School of Medicine through fall 2007. The sculptures can be viewed in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, Olin Residence Hall, Bernard Becker Medical Library, McDonnell Pediatric Research building, and other locations around campus.
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New tools and new possibilities for healing the sick
June 4,
2007 -- The following text was excerpted from a speech by Washington University Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth, M.D. He was recognized in May with the Christopher Hobler Spirit of Hope Award from Hope Happens, an organziation supporting the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University.
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Goldstein awards honor extraordinary teachers
May 25,
2007 -- Krikor Dikranian, Jay Piccirillo and David Windus recently received the Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education for 2006. The awards honor outstanding educators at the School of Medicine and were established in 2000 in memory of Goldstein, a longtime friend of the medical school.
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School of Medicine commencement activities take place May 17-18
May 11,
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| Photo by Robert Boston |
The School of Medicine awarded medical degrees to 126 students in May. The new graduates will take their extraordinary knowledge, energy and enthusiasm with them as they embark on careers in surgery, pediatrics, internal medicine, public health and many other medical disciplines.
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Medical student Leana Wen to make reporting trip to Africa
May 11,
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Fourth-year student Leana Wen was selected to travel with New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristoff to Africa to observe and write about Africa's problems as a step toward effecting change. Wen was one of 2,000 who applied and will be joined by a teacher from Chicago. She was selected based on her essay below. Read her winning essay.
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Advanced imaging systems offer faster, safer options for treatment of cancer
May 8,
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| Joseph Culver, left, and Michael Welch examine a state-of-the-art diffuse optical tomography system, which allows researchers to visualize tumors without the use of radiation. |
Using a wide range of imaging techniques to visualize cancer in the body, radiology investigators at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine are expanding the boundaries of cancer detection, treatment and research. The strength of their efforts has received national recognition. For several years, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine has ranked among the top three imaging programs in the United States in research grants received by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Medical student Leana Wen to make reporting trip to Africa
April 30,
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Fourth-year student Leana Wen was selected to travel with New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristoff to Africa to observe and write about Africa's problems as a step toward effecting change. Wen was one of 2,000 who applied and will be joined by a teacher from Chicago.
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Fourth-year students get head start on internships
April 27,
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| (From left) Julie Margenthaler, Elizabeth Fialkowski and Lola Fayanju practice installing a central line for treatments such as chemotherapy and intravenous fluids. |
Fourth-year medical students planning to enter surgical fields have the opportunity to get a head start through the Accelerated Skills Preparation for Surgical Internship course at the School of Medicine. The course, in its second year, is open to 20 students planning to enter a surgical subspecialty and is designed to help them develop their technical skills before they begin their internship.
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Undergraduates get opportunity to become patient advocates
April 24,
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| Tyler Merchant talks with Noel Tate, who is recovering after heart surgery. |
Tyler Merchant said he has known since kindergarten that he wanted to be a doctor. And except for two recent days of doubt when he was struggling with a class, the Washington University junior has not changed his mind. What got Merchant through those days of doubt and solidified his decision to become a doctor was spending time with patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital through the Health-Care Advocacy Program offered by the School of Medicine's Office of Diversity Programs.
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Your brain in 'park': Idle minds still show consistent activity patterns
April 20,
2007 -- What does the human brain do when it's doing nothing in particular? In a National Institutes of Health lecture, School of Medicine neuroscientist Marcus Raichle, a pioneer in functional brain imaging, describes how he and his colleagues have probed the apparent decreases in activity they saw in various brain regions when subjects just closed their eyes and rested or looked straight ahead. Their insights have helped them better understand brain behavior.
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Children's Discovery Institute announces second awards
April 18,
2007 -- The Children's Discovery Institute (CDI) has announced a second wave of funding for research initiatives aimed at accelerating cures for childhood disease. The research, led by Washington University scientists, focuses on diseases of the lung, brain, heart and muscle.
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Cancer recurrence can be hard for patients to face
April 6,
2007 -- Cancer recurrence is a hard subject to face. In fact, the return of cancer can be more frightening than the initial diagnosis, says Teresa DeShields, a psychologist at the Siteman Cancer Center. This difficult topic is being discussed more among cancer patients and their physicians since the recent revelation of cancer recurrence in Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential hopeful John Edwards.
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Vision finding could benefit Alzheimer's treatment
April 2,
2007 --
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One of the primary visual areas in the brain that tracks motion has surprised scientists: Instead of directly mapping objects by the way their image falls on the retina, it is the first visual area to map them in a representation of the space surrounding the viewer. The finding, published in Nature Neuroscience by lead author Giovanni d'Avossa, could be important for treatment of visual complications of Alzheimer's disease and for understanding how the brain assembles a stable picture from the perpetual jerky scanning movements the eyes make.
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Medical scanners virtually unwrap Science Center's baby mummy
March 30,
2007 --
Researchers at the University and elsewhere recently helped the St. Louis Science Center probe the mysteries of a baby mummy. The mummy, part of the Science Center's collection of artifacts for two decades, went on permanent public display on March 15 in conjunction with the arrival of an IMAX film on mummies.
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