Outlet: Sun-Sentinel.com
Title/Program: ACL injuries could be influenced by gender and which leg dominates, study finds
Publication Date: 08/04/2010
Extract: Anterior cruciate ligament injuries are often linked to how an athlete moves. Kicking, pivoting and landing can be important factors in tearing or rupturing this knee ligament that helps keep the joint stable. But gender and which leg sustains the injury may be key as well, according to a new study. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation looked at ACL injuries in a mix of professional, college, high school and youth soccer players who had undergone surgery for a complete ALC tear. Link to Article
Outlet: Missourian
Title/Program: Schweich wins Republican race to challenge Auditor Montee
Publication Date: 08/03/2010
Extract: Missouri’s Republican auditor candidates campaigned on their previous work in government, and voters on Tuesday sided with the former U.S. State Department official over the former state legislator. Tom Schweich claimed a comfortable victory over state Rep. Allen Icet in Tuesday’s primary election, winning most of the state except the counties in southeastern Missouri. Currently a visiting law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Schweich was the chief of staff for the U.S. mission to the United Nations and worked for the State Department to combat drugs, terrorism and corruption in Afghanistan. Link to Article
Outlet: Kansas City infoZine
Title/Program: More effective medical treatments may rely on component in bee venom
Publication Date: 08/03/2010
Extract: Melittin, a toxic protein in bee venom, has been effectively altered to create a kind of nanoparticle “smart bomb” that significantly improves the effectiveness of liposome-encapsulated drugs or dyes, such as those already used to treat or diagnose cancer. The use of this substance may revolutionize treatments for cancer, arthritis, heart disease and even serious infections.” This type of transporter agent may help in the design and use of more personalized treatment regimens that can be selectively targeted to tumors and other diseases,” said Samuel A. Wickline, Ph.D., a researcher at the Washington University School of Medicine. Link to Article
Outlet: globeandmail.com
Title/Program: Monkey wanted to cuddle, an orangutan’s day, anguish for eggheads
Publication Date: 08/03/2010
Extract: “Orangutans are more economical than any other primate, including humans,” Jennifer Viegas writes for Discovery News. “A new study found that orangutans need less food fuel than we do for the same, or greater, levels of activity.” When they do eat, orangutans nibble mostly on ripe fruit, along with smaller portions of leaves and seeds. “They wake up early, after a long night’s sleep,” said lead author Herman Pontzer, an assistant professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. “Then they spend the day socializing, exploring their indoor or outdoor enclosures.” Taken together, these activities add up to the same level of exercise performed by humans in physically demanding agricultural lifestyles, according to the study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Link to Article
Outlet: Business Pundit
Title/Program: Princeton Review releases 373 best colleges survey
Publication Date: 08/03/2010
Extract: The Princeton Review has released its annual list of the best 373 colleges in America. Washington University in St. Louis ranked #3 in the “Best Quality of Life” category, which covers food, dorm comfort, how easy it is to get around campus, town-gown relations, student friendliness and more. There’s much more on the Princeton Review’s website: http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx Link to Article
Outlet: CBS NEWS
Title/Program: Best colleges in the land, in more ways than one – The Early Show – CBS News
Publication Date: 08/03/2010
Extract: College has never been more expensive, so it’s never been more important to do what you can to make sure you get as much bang for your multiple bucks as possible. Rob Franek, who headed the compilation and writing of Princeton Review’s “Best 373 Colleges: 2011 Edition,” ran down the results of the Review’s survey of some 122,000 students about their schools. WUSTL is listed in online Top Ten lists as #8 for Great Financial Aid and #10 for Best Campus Food.
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Outlet: Discovery Health Channel
Title/Program: Mystery Diagnosis
Extract: Discovery Health Channel’s “Mystery Diagnosis” program examines the case of a woman with a mass the size of a ping-pong ball growing in her leg. The primary doctor is mystified, so he refers her to a specialist, Dr. James Schreiber, in the ob-gyn department at Washington University in St. Louis. Whatever this mass was, it was pressing on sciatic nerve, the major nerve of the leg. The vast majority of the muscles of the leg are controlled by the sciatic nerve. Link to Broadcast
News in higher education
Outlet: The New York Times
Title/Program: At U. of Iowa, recruitment success has its perils
Publication Date: 08/04/10
Excerpt: Like an airline overselling a flight, the University of Iowa extended admission this year to several thousand more applicants than it could accommodate on campus in this fall’s freshman class. While nearly every university overbooks each year, relying on sophisticated algorithms that predict just how many admitted students will probably go elsewhere, Iowa officials were surprised to learn this spring how far off they were in their math. Link to article
Outlet: USA Today
Title/Program: ‘Free’ movies, songs no more as colleges bust file-sharing
Publication Date: 08/04/10
Excerpt: College students who download music and movies from peer-to-peer file-sharing programs such as LimeWire and KaZaA will find themselves cut off when they return to campus this fall. Every college across the country must either have installed software to block illegal file-sharing or have created some other procedure for preventing it. The requirement is part of the 2008 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which took effect July 1. Link to article
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