by admin | Jul 4, 2003 | Health / Medicine
A study conducted at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis predicts smokers might significantly reduce the adverse health effects of their habit if they could switch from cigarettes to inhalers that deliver doses of what is called “clean...
by admin | Apr 25, 2003 | Health / Medicine
A Missouri school is part of what some have called one of the biggest “breakthroughs of the decade” in cardiac medicine. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new method of coating arterial stents used in angioplasty with a drug to prevent scar...
by admin | Apr 15, 2003 | Health / Medicine
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, joined by scientists from other institutions around the country, announced this week they’ve completed the Human Genome Project that was started in 1988. Doctor Richad Wilson, who heads up the...
by admin | Feb 21, 2003 | Crime / Courts
Missouri colleges are taking seriously warnings from the FBI that terrorists could target college campuses. Webster University in St. Louis has tightened security. Officials there say they ordered American flags on all of its overseas campuses taken down after the...
by admin | Feb 3, 2003 | Health / Medicine
A study of St. Louis area children dying of sudden infant death syndrome or accidental suffocation shows a disporportionately high percentage are black. The study done by Washington University and St. Louis University finds 68 percent of those deaths between 1994 and...
