Making headway against hepatitis C: SLU study shows new drug combo effective in nonresponders
... ... ... "The results are promising," says Bruce R. Bacon, M.D., principal investigator...How much influence do medical publications have on your doctor? A great deal, says new SLU research
... ... Researchers from the Saint Louis University Center for Outcomes Research studied nearly 400,000 hospital admissions of heart failure patients before and after two articles appeared in Circulation and JAMA in early 20...'Ticking time bomb': Prisons unprepared for flu pandemic, says new SLU research
... "There's a real failure to recognize how important the health status of inmates is to the public health of all of us," says Rachel Schwartz, Ph.D., a researcher at the Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University School of Public Health. "Nearly 8...Advice for overweight moms: Lose weight before getting pregnant a second time, SLU study finds
ST. LOUIS -- Doctors should advise overweight moms considering another pregnancy to take off extra weight first because they are at greater risk of having big babies, a new Saint Louis University study finds....... Researchers found that moms who don't lose the weight they gained during the first pregnancy and continue to gain after their first child is born are at risk of having bigger babies th...Leading hepatology textbook edited by SLU researchers
Two Saint Louis University School of Medicine faculty members have teamed up for a new edition of a textbook widely considered to be the leading clinical reference on hepatology. ... ...Bruce R. Bacon, M.D., director of the division of gastroenterology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and Adrian M. Di Bisceglie, M.D., chief of hepatology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine,...SLU research on teen moms refutes conventional wisdom: Early motherhood may not ruin their lives
ST. LOUIS -- A new Saint Louis University study rebuts the assumption that all teenagers who have babies face a future of dismal failure.... ..."Earlier studies exaggerated the long-term negative consequences associated with teenage mothering," says Lee SmithBattle, R.N., DNSc, professor of nursing at Saint Louis University Doisy College of Health Sciences and principal investigator of a qualita...Economic cost to hospitals from an avian flu pandemic likely to be huge, SLU professor says
The financial effect of the avian flu on hospitals that treat stricken patients likely will be enormous, predicted James Romeis, Ph.D., professor of health services research at Saint Louis University....... "If avian flu occurred in the U.S., a large financial loss would probably be borne by the treating institution unless the government offsets losses not covered by insurance," Romeis says. "We...Pediatricians ignore screenings that flag hearing problems in children, new SLU research finds
ST. LOUIS -- Pediatricians are not referring more than half of the children who fail hearing screenings for further tests, according to new research by a Saint Louis University physician. The study was published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.... ..."Doctors are doing tests that they're ignoring," says Donna R. Halloran, M.D., assistant professor of ped...Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report dramatic evidence of the importance of visual cues in the control of food intake in the current issue of Obesity Research, a leading nutrition journal. ...... ...The researchers served a free soup lunch to 54 adults, half of whom ate from normal 18-ounce soup bowls, while the other half ate from identical bowls that, unbeknownst...