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In our lifetime: the race to outpace Alzheimer’s
The “In Our Lifetime” video series from WashU Medicine explores Alzheimer’s research and the hope it provides to millions around the world through the eyes of four participants.
Psilocybin providers follow safety guidelines, study finds (Links to an external site)
First look at how centers screen callers reassuring, but cost may impede greater access.
Immune cell map uncovers how individual aging trajectories diverge (Links to an external site)
Study finds cellular immune patterns associated with chronic diseases, death.
WashU Medicine Physician Leads Global Consortium Behind Next-Generation Radiation Therapy Technology (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine was one of only a handful of academic medical centers worldwide chosen to help design, test and refine a new radiation therapy system.
$11.7 million from NIH supports research on inflammation in blood cancers (Links to an external site)
Grant will fund four major projects, three core resources to study myeloproliferative neoplasms.
Frequent cannabis use tied to more severe epilepsy (Links to an external site)
Study finds near-daily users had more seizures, needed specialized care sooner than nonusers.
Blocking immune cells’ path into brain limits neurodegeneration (Links to an external site)
Mouse study suggests new approach to preventing brain cell death from certain neurological diseases.
Research Wire
Lower rotavirus vaccination rates could land more kids in hospital
Even modest declines in rotavirus vaccination of infants under new CDC guidance could lead to thousands more children hospitalized or in the emergency room with severe diarrhea each year, according to a study led by epidemiologist Anne Mobley Butler, PhD.
Feedback tool helps first responders deliver better breathing care for kids
Joseph D. Finney, MD, Jeff Siegler, MD and Fahd A. Ahmad, MD found a feedback tool helps paramedics deliver better manual breathing support in a study that aims to help children who aren’t breathing.
Study identifies immune drivers of pregnancy complication
Researchers led by Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD, have helped identify the drivers of chronic placental inflammation, which can lead to preterm birth and fetal death.
Ferraro receives prestigious award to study leukemia
Francesca Ferraro, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine, has received a grant from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation to support her research on acute myeloid leukemia.
Silva-Fisher receives grant to study multiple myeloma
Funds from the American Cancer Society will support research by Jennifer Silva-Fisher, PhD, into what drives growth and treatment resistance in multiple myeloma.