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Advancing women’s health: Trauma-informed obstetrics care at center of CWRU researcher’s work
Hannoud Almoghrabi, DNP, RN, APRN, WHNP-BC, CNMArea of Focus: Women’s Health, Obstetric carePregnancy in itself is a challenging experience, and even more so for women who have suffered from trauma. Working as a women's health nurse practitioner and a midwife, Hannouh Almoghrabi, DNP (NUR ‘12,…
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A history of healing
Ulysses Grant Mason III aims to support future physicians
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New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally
Southern states face steepest increases as low-income communities bear greatest burden
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A Q&A with Dean Stan Gerson on the Opportunities of a Strategic Plan
For Stan Gerson, MD, a strategic plan is not a sit-on-a-shelf-and-gather-dust kind of document. It’s a living plan that speaks to our times, details the rationale and goals for potentially game-changing collaborations, and is adjusted annually to account for the unforeseen. Work on the School of…
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Cleveland researchers discover nitric oxide rewires gene expression in the brain, offering new insight into Alzheimer’s disease
New study from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals shows loss of nitric oxide in Alzheimer’s brains; Published in ‘Molecular Cell’
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Case Western Reserve researchers aim to advance precision molecular imaging for cancer diagnosis and treatment
James P. Basilion, PhDProfessor of the Department of Radiology at the School of Medicine and of the Department of Biomedical EngineeringArea of Focus: Precision cancer diagnosis and treatment with molecular imagingDuring surgical intervention for cancer patients, completely removing cancerous…
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Seeing inside: CWRU makes pioneering contributions to medical imaging through history
When Dayton C. Miller, PhD (HON 1927), learned invisible light rays could pass through objects and leave images on film, he decided to experiment.In the winter of 1896, the Case School of Applied Science physics professor took X-rays of his body in sections on glass plates—and then put the plates…
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Leading the way: Workplace violence prevention program will extend School of Nursing’s legacy of innovation
Case Western Reserve’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing has long pioneered educational advances. Now, the school is again in the vanguard, developing a certificate program to address the human toll of workplace violence in healthcare.“As incidents of workplace violence affecting nurses and…
Zhenghe “John” Wang, in a lab coat, stands next to a screen showing a fluorescence image of tumor tissue. In the background are shelves filled with laboratory equipment.
Meet a CWRU leader and researcher who aims to find a cure for colon cancer
Zhenghe “John” Wang, PhDProfessor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of MedicineArea of Focus: Colon cancer therapyEarly in his career at Case Western Reserve University, Zhenghe “John” Wang, PhD, was teaching his students about…
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From CWRU to the AAOMS Board: A conversation with alum Martin Eichner, DDS
A leader in oral surgery, Dr. Eichner reflects on his journey from CWRU to national advocacy