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July 04, 2012
The Prevention Center for Health Neighborhoods will host a seminar looking at smoke-free workplace laws and public health. David Bruckman, the biostatistician and chief systems analyst at the Cleveland Department of Public Health and an adjunct instructor at PRCHN, will present “Enforcement of…
July 04, 2012
When a healthy boy was infected with antibiotic-resistant bacterium, the infection was traced to his mother’s nurse’s bag, which was left in the family’s car after her home health care visit to a patient with the same infection. Although the boy’s infection and the patient’s infection were never…
July 03, 2012
Weatherhead School's adjunct professor Michael Goldberg writes about Fulbright experience in Vietnam
US Professor urges Vietnamese entrepreneurs to “dream big” VietnamNet: Michael Goldberg, an adjunct professor in the Department of Banking and Finance at Weatherhead School of Management, is in Vietnam as a Fulbright scholar. While there, he’s learned it is a very entrepreneurial country but its…
July 03, 2012
Health care: legal, medical experts react Cleveland Jewish News: School of Law Professor Jessie Hill said those who say the Affordable Care Act unconstitutionally violates personal freedom are “saying people have the right to a free ride on everybody’s tax and insurance” payments. “It’s not that…
July 03, 2012
International Criminal Court turns 10 The Associated Press: The world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court, came into force July 1, 2002. So far, it has started just three trials and convicted online one person. “It’s a fledgling organization,” said Michael…
July 03, 2012
14 worst hospital mistakes to avoid Prevention: To help prevent harm at the hospital, there is plenty patients can do. For example, said Caitlin Brennan, a postdoctoral fellow in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, when there is a shift change, be sure to meet with your new nurse to ask…
July 03, 2012
U.S. Supreme Court's ruling shines light on two Northeast Ohio cases involving youths The Plain Dealer: The Supreme Court ruled it is unconstitutional for states to have mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of murder. “Kids are different, and states have to recognize…
July 02, 2012
Juscelino F. Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, was recently reappointed reviewer at Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review. The journal provides a platform for review and discussion, both in Europe and internationally, of the legal…
July 02, 2012
Kathryn Mercer, a professor of legal analysis and writing, will serve as a U.S. delegate and a judge at the International Negotiation Competition. INC is a law student competition in which a team of two law students representing a party/client negotiates either an international transaction or the…
July 02, 2012
Arthur Blum, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor Emeritus in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, died June 21 in Ann Arbor, Mich., from complications of cancer. He was 86. A native of Cleveland, Blum earned his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at Western Reserve University. He…