Medicals NEWS
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Project ARK receives $6.7 million to provide HIV care to women, children, youth
Aug. 7, 2007 -- Project ARK, the St. Louis area's only organization that coordinates medical care, social support and prevention services for children, youth, young adults, women and families living with or at risk for HIV infection, has received a $6.7 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
High blood pressure, low energy — a recipe for heart failure
Aug. 8, 2007 -- Many people with long-standing high blood pressure develop heart failure. But some don't. Daniel Kelly and colleagues at the School of Medicine and other institutions are trying to figure out what could explain that difference. Their latest research reveals that impaired energy production in heart muscle may underlie heart failure in some hypertensive patients.
Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
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Adverse housing conditions contribute to diabetes risk
Aug. 13, 2007 --
Studying people in their homes and neighborhoods, investigators have found that poor housing conditions contribute to the risk for diabetes in urban, middle-aged African-Americans. A team of investigators from the School of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine and other institutions conducted the study. They published their findings in the Aug. 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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| Good housing in St. Louis (above) contrasted with poor housing nearby. |
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Babies' brains to be monitored using light scans
Aug. 20, 2007 -- Researchers hoping to better understand the development of the infant brain have long been stymied by a formidable obstacle: babies just don't want to sit still for brain scans. "There have been some studies that obtained brain scans of infants while they were napping or sedated, but what we'd really like to do is to scan their brains when they're sitting on a parent's lap, seeing new things, hearing new words and interacting with the environment," says Joseph Culver, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine.
Researchers separate analgesic effects from addictive aspects of pain-killing drugs
Aug. 20, 2007 --
For the first time, pain researchers at the School of Medicine have shown that it's possible to separate the good effects of opiate drugs such as morphine (pain relief) from the unwanted side effects of those drugs (tolerance, abuse and addiction). The investigators, led by Zhou-Feng Chen, Ph.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, psychiatry and molecular biology and pharmacology, report their results online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They found that opiates like morphine don't relieve pain as well in mice genetically engineered to lack neurons that produce a neurotransmitter called serotonin in the central nervous system.
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| Mice developed in the laboratory of Zhou-Feng Chen don't experience relief from pain when given opiate drugs such as morphine. |
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Washington University becomes member of major cancer research consortium
Aug. 21, 2007 -- The School of Medicine has joined the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC), an organization of 13 leading U.S. academic centers designed to speed the development of new myeloma therapies. Washington University School of Medicine serves as a major center for multiple myeloma treatment and research in the St. Louis area.
