In the News Archive

Siteman Cancer Center offers a new technique to treat many head and neck cancers.

For 17 years, John DiPersio, MD, PhD, has been drawing doodles on scraps of paper. He has turned many of these drawings into a unique T-shirt design for each annual bone marrow transplant (BMT) patient celebration and now those drawings have been made into a special quilt.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine have filed a Certificate of Need Letter of Intent with the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee to build a new Siteman Cancer Center in south St. Louis County, serving the I-55 corridor and southern Illinois. The two organizations also have signed a contract to purchase property for the new facility.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine are one of only 14 hospitals and medical institutions in the country listed among America’s elite medical centers in U.S.News & World Report’s List of “America’s Best Hospitals.”

Experience the power of plants and learn how to live a healthy, green lifestyle at the 2nd annual “Healthy You, Healthy Planet Festival,” Saturday, July 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

With Missouri’s unemployment rate at around 9.5% and a rising number of people without health insurance, a grant made possible by the Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure has never been more in demand.

Melanoma is one of a few cancers that have been shown to stimulate a low level immune response toward the tumor in many people. Some gifts donated to the Melanoma Research and Patient Care Fund of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation are supporting a study to create a melanoma vaccine that increases the immune response and promotes regression of the disease.

He was an accomplished horse trainer, casual pianist, and professional hair designer. But those who were dearest to David Marion would say the best way to describe him is “big brother.”

A new report in the journal “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention” says the use of indoor tanning beds increases the risk of melanoma two and four fold depending on the type of machine and the length of time a person tans.