WashU Medicine study redefines picobirnaviruses as only the third known group of bacteria-infecting RNA viruses ...

The drive from rural Benton, Ill., to St. Louis takes two hours, but for Jennie and Jake Gibbs, the hardest part wasn’t the distance, it was the uncertainty. Last summer, Jennie was 24 weeks pregnant ...

A collaborative team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have been awarded a nearly $11 million grant from ...

Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD, a professor of neurological surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural William H. Danforth Washington University Physician ...

Despite advances in the field of organ transplantation, long-term organ rejection that can become apparent a decade or more after a heart or lung transplant remains a common problem for patients. This ...

Patients with Angelman syndrome tend to have slower brain development. Elevated levels of a specific molecule trigger the brain’s stress response, disrupting its growth. Blocking the molecule restored ...

First look at how centers screen callers reassuring, but cost may impede greater access.

New research links outdoor air pollution — even at levels deemed safe — to an increased risk of diabetes globally, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to quickly understand how best to fight the virus, but it also presents challenges to initiating studies involving actual patients, such as obtaining ...

For many aging Americans, the dream of maintaining an active, independent lifestyle while living at home comes crashing down with a fall. Falls are the leading cause of injury, accidental death and ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an approach to estimating when a person who is likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but has no cognitive symptoms, ...

Ebony Boyce Carter, MD, a physician-scientist known for her research involving community-based interventions to promote health equity for pregnant women and their babies, has been named director of ...