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Blood on your toothbrush can be a warning sign of gum disease. And if you are overweight, it can indicate other serious health issues, such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. Don’t wait; get to the dentist, advise Charlene B. Krejci and Nabil F. Bissada of Case Western Reserve Univ...

Here’s your chance to live out your dream of performing in public. The Cleveland International Piano Competition and Case Western Reserve University will make your dream possible by bringing to Cleveland “Play Me, I’m Yours,” a public art installation of 21 working pianos to be placed—ready for spo...

Anthony “Chip” Valleriano was 7 years old when a 3-by-4-inch, black and white photo from the early 1900s of the elaborate interior of Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church in Ashtabula first captured his fascination. It was the church his family attended and where he would later be an altar server. But...

Two young men who shared the same name and lived in similar Baltimore-area neighborhoods wound up on opposite sides of prison bars. One Wes Moore became a Rhodes Scholar and bestselling author; the other is serving a life sentence in a Maryland prison. The story of how they both found trouble befor...

Susan Lewis, executive director of development and external relations at the College of Arts and Sciences, passed away Friday, March 15. She was 49. Lewis began this role in 2008, working to strengthen programs in the arts, humanities, mathematics and social, physical and biological sciences throug...

A new method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could provide early identification of specific cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and other maladies, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center write in the journal Nature. Each body tiss...

By the time he was 16, Juscelino Colares knew he wanted to be a lawyer when he grew up. The only difference between Colares and many other teenagers with the same dreams? He actually started law school then. Colares grew up in Brazil, where he started college at the age of 16. Law is an undergradua...

Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine has received a nearly $1 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Type 1 diabetes program. The three-year award will support research on a rapid-acting, glucose-responsive insulin by biochemistry professor Michael ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem was unsolved for nearly 350 years until Oxford Mathematician Andrew Wiles created a proof in 1995. Case Western Reserve University’s Colin McLarty has shown the theorem can be proved more simply. The theorem is called Pierre de Fermat’s last because it was the last and longest...

A scientist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded a $1.2 million grant to develop a therapy to reduce the prevalence of premature births, which today affect more than 15 million newborns worldwide each year. Sam Mesiano, associate professor of reproductive biology, ...