A WashU Medicine clinical trial supports adding mental health coaching and medication cleanup to routine pre-surgical care.

David M. Holtzman, MD, was recognized by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his impact on future ...

St. Louis Children’s — powered by WashU Medicine physicians — ranked among the nation's top hospitals for the 18th consecutive year.

In a discovery that challenges long-standing assumptions about necrotizing enterocolitis, a sudden and often fatal intestinal illness that affects premature infants, researchers at Washington ...

Our faculty are the foundation of excellence upon which WashU Medicine thrives and progress in human health is built. WashU Medicine has 3,100 full-time faculty members. Our faculty are more than ...

Discover how WashU Medicine is pioneering neurosciences research to unlock the brain's mysteries and tackle complex diseases ...

Roughly 4% of the population is affected by a congenital brain malformation that has eluded researchers’ efforts to find causes and treatments. For the condition, Chiari type-1 malformation, the ...

Non-invasive eye scans allow doctors a zoomed-in, three-dimensional look beneath the eye’s surface without causing discomfort or pain to the patient. Used routinely in clinics worldwide, the scans ...

Treatment for HIV has improved tremendously over the past 30 years; once a death sentence, the disease is now a manageable lifelong condition in many parts of the world. Life expectancy is about the ...

Leaders across WashU Medicine foster a culture of ambition and achievement that improves the health of the region, the nation and the world. Some of these contributions leave such an indelible mark — ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an approach to estimating when a person who is likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but has no cognitive symptoms, ...

A cell-based immunotherapy designed to treat rare and aggressive types of blood cancer has been granted Breakthrough Therapy designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Developed by ...