Stephen Liang, MD, joins Medical School physicians to aid hurricane victims

Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, is among 13 recipients to receive  Kenneth Rainin Foundation “Innovator Awards”.  The foundation has awarded $3 million for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) research through its Innovator Awards program. Grants will support an international pool of early-career and seasoned researchers to study untested ideas that could lead to […]

Resistance to malaria drugs is a growing problem Sebastian Nasamu, an MD/PhD student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, battled successive bouts of malaria as a child growing up in Ghana. He survived ­– but decided long ago to commit himself to eradicating the disease. The possibility that his work could lead […]

Philip Budge, MD, PhD, and Ramakrishna Rao, PhD, team up with international partners to test Portable 3-D scanner to assesses patients with elephantiasis Device measures swollen limbs faster, more easily than other methods

New York City PrEP Prescriptions Increase Nearly 1,000 Percent, But Disparities Remain Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prescriptions in New York City increased by nearly 1,000 percent in two years, but men of color, women and patients outside the city center were less likely to be prescribed the HIV prevention medication. Taken daily, PrEP is more than […]

The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs to children diagnosed with uncomplicated staph infections. Such infections often occur on the skin and look like a pus-filled bug bite. Now, research led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that prescribing antibiotics — in addition to […]

Treating pregnant women before infection may protect fetuses from Zika Brazil and other areas hardest hit by the Zika virus – which can cause babies to be born with abnormally small heads – are also home to dengue virus, which is spread by the same mosquito species.

 My Struggle to Take Anti-H.I.V. Medicine By DARYL HANNAHSEPT. 21, 2017 I am a 30-something African-American gay man in New York. H.I.V. is constantly on my mind. Not so much my H.I.V.-negative status. Rather, even though I watched my parents die of AIDS when I was young, I still struggle with whether I should take […]

While Zika virus causes devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses, it one day may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine shows that the virus kills brain […]

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support research aimed at translating scientific and clinical discoveries into new diagnostics and therapeutics, and to more rapidly apply research findings to improve health.

Anne Mobley Butler, PhD, MS, Instructor in Medicine Anne grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where she once aspired to be a baseball statistician for the Baltimore Orioles. After earning her BS degree in Neuroscience at Emory University (2003) and her MS degree in Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health (2006), she worked as a […]