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July 25, 2013
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will assess the effectiveness of palliative care home health visits in treating people with HIV and other chronic illnesses in a new four-year, $1.7 million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing…
July 24, 2013
Important step toward pharmacologic development of treatment for fatal brain disorders
A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form…
July 23, 2013
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have examined how childhood abuse and neglect affect chronic health problems in adulthood for inner-city women. The latest findings, reported in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, complement prior studies of other socioeconomic groups and now…
July 23, 2013
Is there a brain area for mind wandering? For religious experience? For re-orienting attention? A recent study casts serious doubt on the evidence for these ideas, and rewrites the rules for neuroimaging. Brain-mapping experiments attempt to identify the cognitive functions associated with…
July 21, 2013
New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants. In the article, “Kangaroo Care as a…
July 19, 2013
A far cry from the big city lifestyle of his hometown of Long Island, N.Y., Louis Stark attended college at Davis & Elkins College—a small-liberal arts school with an enrollment of less than 800 students in the mountains of Elkins, W.Va. It was there that Stark became involved in student…
July 18, 2013
Over the next two and a half weeks, about 11,000 athletes will come to Cleveland for the 2013 National Senior Games—the world’s largest multi-sport event for athletes over age 50. That’s approximately the same number of competitors in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Such a large event calls for…
July 17, 2013
A new four-year, $1.58 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), will allow a Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researcher to advance her work linking oral bacteria to fetal death. The grant will support a study by Yiping Han,…
July 17, 2013
Case Western Reserve University and area partners won Team Northeast Ohio’s 2013 Asset Creation award for helping to land the nation’s first manufacturing innovation hub—the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute—in Youngstown. The award is given to the team that brings the best,…
July 16, 2013
Discover first hand the true harmony of art and music brought to life when a few dozen colorful, artistically decorated pianos appear throughout University Circle and other Greater Cleveland sites—all yours to play. Play Me, I’m Yours, an interactive, musical public art installation inspired by…