Medical News: Stlouis

December 2015

Business Dec 15

Chef’s New Cookbook Helps Chemotherapy Patients Eat Their Way Through Treatment

Cook identifies what to adjust to make flavorful food for cancer patients.

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Taken for Granted: A Journey Through St. Louis Healthcare

In a city of world renowned healthcare, expansion is moving rapidly.

Clinical Dec 14

Defining the Tension Between Physician, Researcher

Whether it’s caring for an ICU patient at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, helping to define and interpret the rules that protect human…

Clinical Dec 14

Teaching Primary Care Physicians and Healthcare Providers How to Treat the Elderly

Is Geriatrics Becoming a Specialty that is Too Old to Survive?

Business Dec 14

No Correlation Found Between Length of ER Stay and Mortality Rates

How much does ER and ED overcrowding affect trauma patient care?

Grand Rounds Dec 14

Richard Wahl Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Richard L. Wahl, MD, the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor and head of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St.…

Grand Rounds Dec 14

Powell Named Director of Gynecologic Oncology Division

Matthew A. Powell, MD, a noted gynecologic oncologist and researcher, has been named director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology…

Grand Rounds Dec 14

$5.8 Million NIH Contract to SLU to Fund ‘Omics’ Research

Saint Louis University’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit has received a five-year, $5.8 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to support an “omics” research initiative to study the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and…

Grand Rounds Dec 14

Des Peres Hospital Receives an ‘A’ for Patient Safety

Des Peres Hospital received an “A” for patient safety in the Leapfrog Group’s recent Fall 2015 Hospital Safety Score. The Hospital Safety Score is the gold standard rating for patient safety, compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading…

Grand Rounds Dec 14

Trial to Study Smoking-Cessation Therapy Tailored to a Smoker’s DNA

A study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may aid efforts to tailor smoking-cessation treatments to individual cigarette smokers, based on their DNA.The research team is recruiting 720 smokers from the St. Louis area who want to…

Grand Rounds Dec 14

Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center Reaches Milestone

The Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Heart & Vascular Center was one of the first in the country to give hope to patients who had not been candidates for heart surgery in the past. Now, its team of interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic…

Regulatory / Compliance Dec 11