Health + Wellness

As Cleveland native Honey Bell-Bey finished reciting her poem, “The Transformational Power of Art,” at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2024, the leaders who filled the room got to their feet to deliver a standing ovation. Ho...

Monitors and medical devices beep and whirr amid gurneys rolling down a terrazzo corridor. In a high-tech simulation suite at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a team of medical students are racing through a hospital—and against the clock—to reach their patient in the operating...

Finding offers potential new target for treatment Psoriasis, a painful and uncomfortable inflammatory skin condition that affects millions worldwide, flares up from the activity of disease- and infection-protecting immune cells. In a new study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School...

Breakthroughs from the Labs of CWRU School of Medicine Engineering ‘Live’ Replacement Joints About 500 million people globally suffer from osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease in which joint tissues break down over time. Now, backed by an award from the U.S. Depart- ment of Health and Human Serv...

Finding offers potential new target for treatment

A woman has gone viral after pleading for people to show kindness to stray dogs, as experts urged animal lovers to also keep their own safety in mind. The woman, who posts to TikTok under the username @cevytot, gained millions of views and sparked a major conversation when she recorded herself cudd...

Growing up in Osaka, Japan, Hisashi Fujioka always had a love for biology and the natural world around him. That passion drew him to earn his PhD at Nagoya University before forging a 30-year research career in different aspects of science at Case Western Reserve. Now, the Case Western Reserve Univ...

Growing up in Osaka, Japan, Hisashi Fujioka always had a love for biology and the natural world around him. That passion drew him to earn his PhD at Nagoya University before forging a 30-year research career in different aspects of science at Case Western Reserve. Now, the Case Western Reserve Univ...

To our School of Medicine community, I am writing to share the sad news that Case Western Reserve University longtime research scientist Hisashi Fujioka, PhD, died Thursday, Jan. 23, at the age of 75. Hisashi was the manager of standard electron microscopy (EM)...

Each month, the Center for Research and Scholarship at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing sends an internal research newsletter to faculty, staff, students and researchers. A recap is posted here. A Message from the Associate Dean for Research Dear Colleagues, As we turn the page on a ne...