Our surgeons and researchers are frequently featured in the media, both locally and nationally. Here are stories from around the web, featuring our expert faculty.
When Dr. Tiffany M. Osborn received her COVID-19 vaccination shortly after vaccines became available in late 2020, she felt hopeful about the pandemic’s trajectory. A year later, she’s sad and frustrated to see so many COVID patients in the ICU.
Will engage patients, survivors in studying rare cancer, tumors affecting African Americans.
Across the country, and at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, collaborative, multidisciplinary teams are working to preserve and reconstruct damaged limbs. Such teams include specialists from multiple fields: orthopedics, trauma, acute and critical care, plastic and reconstructive surgery, vascular surgery, podiatry, wound care and rehabilitation, all working together to lower the number of amputations performed each year.
A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that a type of “good cholesterol” called HDL3, when produced in the intestine, protects the liver from inflammation and injury.
A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that African American women with triple-negative breast cancer have higher mortality than white American women with this aggressive tumor. The investigators call for more research to understand the factors driving the disparities in order to find ways to address them.
Tiffany Osborn, MD, MPH, and her colleagues have spent the pandemic tending to people in the COVID-19 intensive care unit.
Among the dozen or so framed photos of family and momentous occasions earning spots on a shelf in Dr. Timothy Eberlein’s office is one of him and Alvin Siteman. It was taken at an event about six years ago. They have their arms around each other and are smiling broadly.