Washington University in St. Louis

Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques allow researchers to use the vast amounts of data now available from electronic health records and wearables to help solve complex health problems and improve population health. To…

Malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of children under age 5, causing about 500,000 deaths per year in low- and middle-income countries. Short courses of antibiotics paired with a therapeutic peanut butter-based food are the…

Washington University in St. Louis will lead one of 29 new projects under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Earthshots Initiative, which aims to advance clean energy technologies over the next decade. Biologist Himadri Pakrasi, …

The teenage twins would be virtually mirror images of each other if not for the gnarled burn scar across one of the girls’ faces. When Justin G. Knittel, MD, met the twins at a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, he noticed another stark…

Red colobus monkeys can’t seem to get a break. Since 2007, when anthropologist Krista Milich at Washington University in St. Louis established her project at Kibale National Park in Uganda, she has watched their numbers decline. Red colobus…

Living along the Mississippi Flyway, as we do, St. Louis residents are accustomed to hearing and seeing thousands of ducks, geese and songbirds winging their way over the area twice a year. In the fall, many birds are heading south to…

Washington University in St. Louis is partnering with the St. Louis Integrated Health Network (IHN) on a five-year $3.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The grant is part of the CDC’s Racial…

It is 8:20 p.m. Tuesday and junior Annelise Molavi, a certified emergency medical technician for Washington University’s Emergency Support Team (EST), is dispatched to Lien Hall for a seizure. She arrives with another EST tech and asks…

Dressing bullet wounds for the Bullet Related Injury Clinic. Analyzing biosolids for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment. Developing LGBTQ outreach plans for the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Missouri Chapter. This summer,…

Patients who live in less affluent neighborhoods and those from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups are less likely than others to receive specialized care for dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, a new study from Washington…