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Medicine's Daniel Spratt weighs in on claims related to Biden's cancer diagnosis
Trump, allies spread unfounded claims about Biden’s cancer diagnosis Fast Check: Daniel Spratt, chair and professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine, explained how President Biden may have already had prostate cancer for months if not many years prior to his…
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Weatherhead's Reihuang Yang, Sining Wang and Andrew Medvedev discusses XLab Airlines initiative
CWRU students, staff lead AI projects across industries Spectrum News: Reihuang Yang, a graduate student, Sining Wang, assistant professor, and Andrew Medvedev, dean of the Weatherhead School of Management, discussed a project using AI to revolutionize customer service. The initiative, XLab…
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Nursing's Carli Carnish shares the importance of muscle movement
Sitting too much, even if you exercise, could raise your Alzheimer’s risk Everyday Health: Carli Carnish, assistant professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, explained the importance of activating your muscles as we get older. “I always tell my patients, ‘If you don’t move it, you…
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Political Science's Karen Beckwith shares thoughts on interruption of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A GOP rep leveled a 'reprehensible' remark at AOC — and gender studies experts would like a word Huffington Post: Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, criticized Rep. Randy Weber’s interruption of Rep.…
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Nutrition's Lindsay Malone discusses safety of carbon steel cookware
Is carbon steel cookware safe to use? Homes & Gardens: Lindsay Malone, instructor in the Department of Nutrition in the School of Medicine, made clear that carbon steel cookware is safe to use. "It contains no harmful chemicals and is made from only iron and carbon," she said.
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Law's Sharona Hoffman offers comments on the Trump administration's lawsuits against health insurance companies
Trump is targeting insurance companies: Expect spike in fraud litigation law.com (subscription required): Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, said that the Trump administration lawsuits against major Medicare Advantage insurers and…
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Medicine's Amy Edwards weighs in on the FDA's COVID recommendation updates
COVID variant NB.1.8.1 hits U.S. What to know about symptoms, new booster vaccine restrictions CBS News: Amy Edwards, assistant professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, commented on how the FDA's COVID recommendation updates remain unclear. "Some of the language around pre-existing…
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Mandel School’s Megan Holmes receives grant to develop new tool to evaluate quality sibling relationships
Megan Holmes, professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, recently received an NICHD R01 to develop the first-of-its-kind, rigorously validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ). The…
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Medicine's Varun Sundaram weighs in on study on reduction of atrial fibrillation-related with GLP-1
GLP-1 use may prevent recurrent arrhythmia events for patients with diabetes, obesity Healio: Varun Sundaram, associate professor of medicine, shared his thoughts on a study that demonstrated how GLP-1 use dramatically reduced the incidence of atrial fibrillation-related events in patients with…
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Interdisciplinary faculty team of Justine Howe, Eileen Anderson and Michele Tracy Berger receives Faith and Health Campus Grant from Interfaith America
An interdisciplinary team of Case Western Reserve University faculty members received a two-year, $60,000 Faith and Health Campus Grant from Interfaith America. The collaborators on this award are: Justine Howe, associate professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the…