The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found living kidney donors were more likely to be diagnosed with gestational hypertension (high blood pressure) or preeclampsia than non-donors.
The investigational drug Losartan, which worked better in an animal model, was equally effective to a high dose of the beta blocker, atenolol in treating Marfan syndrome, a rare genetic disease.
Statistics show that 75 percent of the population will have at least one episode of back pain in their lifetime.
A Saint Louis University study in JAMA reveals a vaccination strategy researchers can continue to study to protect people from bird flu that has the potential to become epidemic.
A blinding disorder, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, affects overweight young women.
After the success of a new drug treatment in adults with hepatitis C infection, a Saint Louis University pediatric researcher is testing the safety and efficacy of the medications in children.
Not all genetics tests that screen for cancer risk are the same, says Suzanne Mahon, DNSc, a genetics counselor at Saint Louis University Cancer Center.
Staying healthy comes down to three things, says Mike Markee, PT, ATC, instructor of physical therapy and athletic training at Saint Louis University. Markee spent time on the senior PGA tour and developed exercise and fitness programs for golfers.
Internationally recognized for vaccine research, Saint Louis University faculty wrote about their efforts to protect people from infectious diseases in Missouri Medicine, which is the journal of the Missouri state medical society.
Researchers propose authors should be more vigilant and follow a uniform practice in reporting errors
SLU Researchers will help parents apply strategies that could improve their child’s behavioral problems
Scientists try to stay a step ahead of HIV in order to combat drug resistance and to develop better treatments.
Researchers used x-ray crystallography to publish the first image of prothrombin. The protein’s flexible structure is key to the development of blood-clotting.
SLU Researchers find higher expectations and lack of empathy toward children trigger abuse and neglect.
Game-based educational tool will train physicians on emergency room pediatric cases
Saint Louis University researchers describe two discoveries: a molecular pathway by which a painful chemotherapy side effect happens and a drug that may be able to stop it.
As part of a $15.6 million grant awarded to PATH by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Saint Louis University’s Center for World Health and Medicine has received a $3.13 million, three-year sub-grant from PATH to explore new treatments for pediatric diarrhea, which kills about 600,000 young children around the world each year.
Dancing eases hip and knee pain and helps older adults move better, according to a Saint Louis University study.
New initiatives on campus provide socks, hygiene kits to the homeless.
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