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Popular heartburn drugs linked to gradual yet ‘silent’ kidney damage
Taking popular heartburn drugs for prolonged periods has been linked to serious kidney problems, including kidney failure. The sudden onset of kidney problems often serves as a red flag for doctors to...
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Using Twitter may increase food-poisoning reporting
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. citizens gets food poisoning every year, but very few report it. Twitter communications between the public and the proper government authorities could improve foodborne illness...
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New weight-loss therapy rids body of food before digestion
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Aspiration%20therapy%20.mp3 A new weight-loss therapy offers significantly overweight people a means to rid their bodies of some of what they eat before...
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Williams and Hernandez discuss PXSTL
Creativity is a form of research — a way of grappling with the history and community of a place while also demarcating its future potential. This spring and summer, Chicago-based artists Amanda...
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Reaching for higher ground
A billboard looms above an untended field. White stones tumble sideways. But then it registers. The stones are graves. The conditions are shocking. Washington Park Cemetery was once the largest...
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Secrets of the shells
The famous White Cliffs of Dover consist of the crushed remains of numberless tiny plates of calcium carbonate formed by organisms called coccolithophores. (Photo: National Trust) How can we know...
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Overweight mothers underestimate their children’s weight
Mothers who are overweight or obese tend to underestimate the weights of their obese children, according to a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers, led by...
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Couples may miss cues that partner is hiding emotions, study suggests
Even the most blissful of couples in long-running, exclusive relationships may be fairly clueless when it comes to spotting the ploys their partner uses to avoid dealing with emotional issues, suggests...
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Americans divided on Obamacare repeal, poll finds
As House Republicans labor to define a new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), public support for the 2010 legislation is at an all-time high, according to a national survey taken in...
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How molecular function affects high blood pressure, other diseases
By changing one small portion of a stimulus that influences part of one molecule’s function, engineers and researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have opened the door for more insight into...
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Chancellor’s Concert March 3
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) came to the bass by accident. Entering the Milan Conservatory at age 14, Bottesini was a proficient violinist and timpanist. But his family was poor, and Bottesini,...
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100,000-year-old human skulls from east Asia reveal complex mix of trends in...
Two partial archaic human skulls, from the Lingjing site, Xuchang, central China, provide a new window into the biology and populations patterns of the immediate predecessors of modern humans in...
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Board of Trustees meets, hears from medical school scientists
Wrighton At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting held Thursday and Friday, March 2 and 3, the trustees heard presentations from scientists at the School of Medicine and...
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Jews and Muslims Turn Hate to Humanity, March 8
As America grapples with recent acts of violence against its Jewish and Muslim communities, leaders from these groups will explore responses based on partnership and solidarity in a public forum at 7...
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Secrets of the shells
The famous White Cliffs of Dover consist of the crushed remains of numberless tiny plates of calcium carbonate formed by organisms called coccolithophores. (Photo: National Trust) How can we know...
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Symposium explores the rise of Donald Trump, March 9
“American Democracy and the Rise of Donald Trump” will be the focus as faculty experts in history, political science, sociology, law, economics and psychology gather for a public symposium from 1-4...
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Why teach Kanye West?
Jeffrey McCune (Photo: Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) Kanye West is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed artists working today. And his music offers an important lens through which to...
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Academy of Science-St. Louis honors researchers
Five researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are being honored as outstanding scientists by the Academy of Science-St. Louis. The faculty members who will receive awards at the April 6 dinner...
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New Danforth Campus parking plan detailed
Washington University in St. Louis’ new parking and transportation management strategy will help address pending parking reductions, improve the use of existing resources, and better serve the campus...
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Nature: Silk Road evolved as ‘grass-routes’ movement
Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks were being carved by...
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