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Case Western Reserve University offers remedial course on prescribing painkillers The Plain Dealer: Theodore Parran, the Carter and Isabel Wong Professor of Medical Education, discussed his course, which teaches best practices for prescribing painkillers.

Volunteer at the Cleveland Asian Festival! The Cleveland Asian Festival aims to unite the community and celebrate its culture, diversity, and people. This event features authentic Asian foods, shopping, performing artists, games, and free health screenings. Made possible by the volunteerism and…

Volunteer at Relay for Life to help in the fight against cancer. University community members can volunteer at this student-led, campuswide event April 21-22. Service hours are available and volunteers will receive a free T-shirt. A variety of time slots are available. Sign up online.

Joseph White, the Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, wrote an essay published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law titled “The Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Insurance Is Not Regressive—But What Is It?” Read White’s article. His essay then was analyzed in an post for…

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University had an article titled “Crystal structure and dynamics of a lipid-induced potential desensitized-state of a pentameric ligand-gated channel” published in eLIFE. The authors were: Sandip Basak, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of…

Heather Clayton Terry, associate director of women in science and engineering and WISER student adviser, was an invited panelist for the Unified Sisters’ "Power Hour.” Unified Sisters is a women's empowerment organization at Ohio University that strives to promote unity among all women on campus,…

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, recently gave a plenary talk at a 3-D printing a forum in the Philippines. His talk, titled “3-D Printing: Innovationeering Materials and Design,” was part of the Engineering Research and Development for Technology's second…

Why do humans get bunions? Or carpal tunnel syndrome? Separate research led by two Case Western Reserve University students recently published in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, have proposed that these uniquely human maladies are understandable in the context of human’s…

Watch Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Art students pitch their design projects in the St. Gobain Design Competition finals. The audience will have the chance to vote on the projects at the event, which will be held Thursday, April 13, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in Thwing…

The School of Medicine will host a lecture with Harvey Lodish, professor of biology and biological engineering at MIT and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Lodish will present "Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Tuesday, April 18, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Tinkham…