News Release Archive

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.”

Arlene Thomas, 54, of Oakville, MO, was used to setting up deliveries of donor organs to Barnes-Jewish Hospital by helicopter. On June 30, she received one of those deliveries and a heart transplant.

St. Louis Post Dispatch--By Paige Varner 

St. Louis Post Dispatch--By Paige Varner 

Washington University cardiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Alan Braverman, MD, and an international panel of experts in the diagnosis and management of Marfan syndrome – a potentially fatal genetic disorder – have published new diagnostic criteria, thus simplifying the evaluation process for physicians.

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.

Celebrating Fourth of July is an exciting time for most people but can quickly turn into an unfortunate experience when firework injuries occur.

As temperatures in St. Louis stay in the mid-90s for a prolonged period, doctors warn health issues from heat exposure can surface.