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For decades, evidence has been piling up that links heart disease, chronic kidney disease, and metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity. People with diabetes are twice as likely to experience heart disease or stroke. Being overweight and obese increases the risk of high blood pressure…

“Teaching advocacy gives students agency. They learn to identify gaps, translate evidence and pursue solutions that improve care—whether through clinical practice, research or policy.”— Lia Logio, vice dean for medical educationFor Lia Logio, MD, advocacy belongs in medical education—regardless of…

Cancer begins when cells break their own proliferation and survival rules. In those moments, they adapt to stress, bypass stop signals and keep dividing—even in environments that should result in their destruction.For more than three decades, J. Alan Diehl, PhD, chair of the Department of…

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New Trump rules will make meat processing a lot deadlierThe New Republic: Kathleen Fagan, adjunct assistant professor at the School of Medicine, warned that proposed Trump administration rules increasing meat-processing line speeds would lead to more worker injuries, chronic pain and amputations.…

Keep muscle while losing weight, even on OzempicScientific American: Ian Neeland, associate professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, said most older adults tolerate GLP-1 drugs well, but preserving muscle requires resistance training and higher protein intake—about 1.2 to 1.6 grams per…

Abortion opponents continue fight against Ohio's 2023 reproductive rights amendmentStatehouse News Bureau: Jessie Hill, professor and director of the Reproductive Rights Law Initiative at the School of Law, said the lawsuits challenging Ohio’s 2023 reproductive rights amendment show the amendment…

At Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, researchers are advancing on a goal that once seemed unthinkable: reversing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and ALS. Together, these and other progressive neuronal diseases affect an estimated 57 million…

New hope for breathing recovery after spinal cord injuriesStory By: Patty ZamoraAbout 300,000 Americans live with spinal cord injuries, and related respiratory complications are the leading cause of illness and death, according to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. But a new study led by…