Family and Community Medicine Leader Elected to Institute of Medicine
Michael LeFevre, MD, Future of Family Medicine Professor and vice chair of family and community medicine at the University of Missouri, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National...
View ArticleResearch Reveals When and Why Students Smoke in Effort to Help Them Quit
Discovering when and why students smoke might lead to the development of better intervention methods, according to researchers at the University of Missouri. In an article published in the journal...
View ArticleScientist Eyeing Enzymes That Could Help Fight Flu
The influenza virus remains a worldwide threat to humans, causing an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States alone. As health care professionals prepare for...
View ArticleMU Medical School Forms Unique Partnership with Cristo Rey High Schools
The University of Missouri School of Medicine is the only medical school in the country and the only institution in Missouri to become a national partner of the Cristo Rey Network of high schools for...
View ArticleResearchers Find New Compound to Fight Strep Throat Infection
Researchers have discovered a promising alternative to common antibiotics used to fight the bacteria that causes strep throat. In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
View ArticleTraining Grant Targets Behavioral and Social Factors Linked to Health
NIH award will help medical students at the University of Missouri become more culturally competent and effective physicians.
View ArticleMU Receives National Award for Using Mind-Body Approach to Improve Health
Team teaches mind-body interaction activities to encourage positive health behaviors
View ArticleNew Stroke Treatment Could Prevent and Reduce Brain Damage
Researchers at the University of Missouri have demonstrated the effectiveness of a potential new therapy for stroke patients in an article published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration. Created...
View ArticleMU Receives $13.3 Million Grant to Provide Better Health Care at a Lower Cost
High-tech, high-touch care model combines technology with education for patients and providers
View ArticleMU Program Receives National Award for Improving Access to Health Care
A University of Missouri program regarded as a model for improving access to health care has received a national award for its comprehensiveness, partnerships and responsiveness to community needs. MU...
View ArticleMU Celebrates $5 Million Partnership for Advancing Biomedical Discoveries
From a tool for treating burn victims to a technique for detecting neurodevelopmental disorders, new products and services for patients are now being developed with support from the University of...
View ArticlePioneering Researcher Receives Heart Association Lifetime Achievement Award
MU endocrinologist was among first to study deadly link between heart disease and diabetes
View ArticleProfessor Receives National Association's Highest Honor in Medical Education
Garrett recognized for decades of achievements that improved training in family medicine.
View ArticleInterprofessional Quality and Safety Training Could Transform Health Care
In the December 2012 issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at the University of Missouri and five other universities describe how medical and nursing schools could join forces to prevent...
View ArticleResearchers Attack HIV's Final Defenses Before Drug-Resistant Mutations Emerge
With a new $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Missouri is leading a team of researchers who want to stay a step ahead of HIV by finding new pathways for...
View ArticleScientists Discover 'Needle in a Haystack' for Muscular Dystrophy Patients
MU scientists Dongsheng Duan, PhD, and Yi Lai, PhD, identified a sequence in the dystrophin gene that is essential for helping muscle tissues function, a breakthrough discovery that could lead to...
View ArticleDiscovery Could Increase Efficacy of Promising Cystic Fibrosis Drug
University of Missouri researchers believe they have found exactly how Kalydeco (Vx-770), the first drug of its kind to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis, works and how to improve its...
View ArticleMU Internal Medicine Chair to Lead Largest Medical Specialty Group in U.S.
David Fleming, MD, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and director of the Center for Health Ethics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, will be named president-elect of the...
View ArticleNew Research Shows Weekend Binge Drinking Could Leave Lasting Liver Damage
Long after a hangover, a night of bad decisions might take a bigger toll on the body than previously understood. Described in the current issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, a...
View ArticleAdult Stem Cells Could Hold Key to Cure Type 1 Diabetes
A University of Missouri scientist has discovered that by combining cells from bone marrow with a new drug may help cure type 1 diabetes. The discovery is reported in the current online issue of Diabetes.
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