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Hospitals don’t include mental health patients in federal standardized surveys of adults after they’re discharged. Washington University professor Morgan Shields and her colleagues teamed up with mental health advocates to fight for hospitals to survey those who receive behavioral health care.

Transgender youth and their parents were shocked at Jamie Reed’s allegations — and now want officials to hear their perspectives.

Washington University researcher Calvin Lai discusses his latest study showing that the daylong implicit bias-oriented training programs commonly used by most police departments are unlikely to reduce racial inequity in policing.

A whistleblower released details Thursday about her employment at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

The new children’s book “This Is Not My Home” was written by Washington University undergraduates and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

The university said it sees the transaction as a way to preserve and support the vitality of the Loop and also to secure space for a few administrative offices close to the university’s main campus.

Researchers from the University of Missouri and Washington University, studying St. Louis Children’s Hospital emergency room data, found more children are coming to the ER with gun shot injuries than before the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020.

Research into psychedelic drugs was halted in the 1960s as recreational use and its backlash criminalized them. The Veterans Administration is joining dozens of other medical providers and researchers in resuming that work.

Millions received the COVID-19 vaccine, which was the first widely used immunization to use mRNA technology. Washington University researchers hope they can use the same method to make an mRNA flu shot.

A century ago, physicist Arthur Holly Compton made his Nobel Prize-winning discovery related to X-rays at Washington University in St. Louis.