The Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital was named one of five sites for the National Football League’s newly instated neurological treatment program. The program was created by the NFL in response to an issue of retired players’ mental health care. David Brody, Assistant Professor of Neurology, will lead Wash. U.

HIV infections can age the brain by up to 15 to 20 years, according to an article published in February in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

A professor of obstetrics and gynecology is building a hospital in Niger dedicated to repairing vesicovaginal fistulas in African women whose injuries in childbirth result in a lifetime of loneliness and poverty.