SearchPast Issues Aug. 14, 2008

School to lead international Alzheimer's disease research network The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the School of Medicine will lead a six-year, $16 million international research collaboration dedicated to understanding inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease. Barnes-Jewish West County ER staffed by WUSTL physicians Washington University faculty physicians assumed responsibility for providing medical care in the Emergency Department at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital July 1. The addition of Washington University emergency medicine physicians continues the enhancement of clinical services at Barnes-Jewish West County. Rising to the sky The frame of the BJC Institute of Health at Washington University continues to rise and expand across the two-acre construction site. Nerve injuries in military personnel focus of Web site Military physicians treating solders with nerve injuries will soon be guided by a multimedia Web site under development by the School of Medicine.