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October 03, 2013
Dennis K. Norman, faculty chair of the Harvard University Native American Program, will be in Cleveland Monday, Oct. 14, to give two talks on Native American health and the culture's history of health disparities. His first appearance will be a free, public lecture from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Mather…
October 03, 2013
The field of gene therapy promises to dramatically transform the treatment of disease, as well as fundamentally change the delivery of health care in the 21st century. A new book provides a comprehensive review of the field of gene-based therapeutics in an expanded third edition textbook that…
October 03, 2013
On Friday, Oct. 4, the Case Western Reserve University Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) chapter will screen the movie Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare. This documentary tackles how to reform the U.S. health care system. It examines the forces maintaining the status…
October 03, 2013
Celebrate the beginning of fall with this weekend's fourth annual Farm Harvest Festival. Guests will have an opportunity to see what the university farm’s Farm Food Program has produced for Bon Appétit and all of the cafés on campus. The festival will feature food, such as vegetarian chili,…
October 02, 2013
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty wants Internet cafe plea terms unsealed The Plain Dealer: Michael Benza, senior instructor in law, discussed the recent Internet café case. He said, pleas are typically sealed because the prosecution wants to secure cooperation from defendants. In this…
October 02, 2013
Cleveland Clinic, CWRU part of a newly formed NIH Center for Accelerated Innovations The Plain Dealer: Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University have been designated by the National Institutes of Health as members of one of three Centers for Accelerated Innovations, centers designed to…
October 02, 2013
Bacterial infection's spread occurs beyond health care settings: Study U.S. News and World Report: A new study raises questions about the transmission of Clostridium difficile, a bacteria that causes life-threatening diarrhea in people who have recently been on antibiotics, particularly in…
October 02, 2013
Case Western Reserve University is part of a landmark study that has discovered four novel gene variations associated with blood pressure. The 19-site meta-analysis, involving nearly 30,000 African-Americans, also found that the set of genetic mutations are associated with blood pressure across…
October 02, 2013
The Career Center always has offered students resources online through its website, but now it seeks to expand the convenience of receiving career advice from virtually anywhere through its latest program, #Hashing It Out. #Hashing It Out will be an ask-and-answer sequence on Twitter, which users…
October 02, 2013
Registration is now open for fall semester CaseLearns New Media Workshops with courses on PowerPoint, digital images, video editing and more. New workshops include “Making Websites” and “3D Printing.” Some courses this semester will also be offered on Sunday afternoons and Thursday evenings. In…