St. Louis University

More than 500 St. Louis University teaching and research assistants will be part of the Graduate Workers of SLU union.

Palliative care is treatment that helps manage side effects, symptoms and mental health issues for people with cancer and other severe illnesses.

A family at their wits end brought their son, given the pseudonym “Robbie Mannheim,” to Jesuit priests from St. Louis University for an exorcism in 1949. The story has been fodder for urban legend ever since.

The Free Application for Federal Aid will open on Dec. 1, two months later than originally scheduled. Last year's form had issues that delayed students’ aid packages.

The budget deficit is largely due to a sharp drop in international student enrollment this year.

Since 1991 there have been more charter schools to open than public schools in the city of St. Louis, but researchers from St. Louis University say more collaboration between the two could prove fruitful for educators and students in the city.

Investigators at St. Louis University and SSM Health hope to recruit people to add their health information to a huge national database that aims to diversify medical research.

Could whale baleen filter microplastics out of water like they filter plankton? What if microbes could be engineered to create a plastic alternative? Scientists are asking these questions in St. Louis labs.

Local scientists have some theories about why parts of the St. Louis region are swarming with cicadas while others are eerily silent.

The state is shaping up to be a big battleground over abortion rights in November. Research shows a majority of U.S. Catholics support abortion rights — even though church leadership does not.