Skip to main content

Health + Wellness

From PPE to cloth masks, Dr. Dweik discusses preventing the spread of COVID-19
In a Cleveland Clinic podcast , pulmonologist Raed Dweik, MD, discusses what the health system is doing to prepare for the wave of sick patients, as well as how it’s handling the current demand, prepping dedicated teams, designating space and training healthcare workers on properly using and…
keyboard
The Behavior of Social Distancing: New study seeks participants to evaluate behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
Six feet apart. It’s the safe distance metric response for to the COVID-19 pandemic heard for weeks as states across the United States put their citizens in a holding pattern with stay at home orders shuttering non-essential businesses, closing public gathering places and limiting restaurants to…
Drupal-Aside-Photo.png
Zoom Fatigue
The opinion is now universal among those who participated in my totally unscientific survey that we are more tired after eight hours of Zoom than we are after a 12 to 14-hour day doing other things.  It could be fanny fatigue because we don’t get up to usher someone into our offices between…
coronavirus
Researchers using Artificial Intelligence to find out which COVID-19 patients are most likely to need ventilators
Case Western Reserve University lab using digital images of chest scans from coronavirus patients from Wuhan, China, to teach its computers to triage patients Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University lab, which has become a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven precision…
Fu_Main
Researcher Michael Fu awarded NSF CAREER Award
Case Western Reserve University assistant professor seeks to improve effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation by measuring unknown role of human effort Although functional electrical stimulation (FES) devices have become commonplace in the last few decades, helping people recover muscle…
swab-testing
Mark Cameron, of the School of Medicine, says testing is the best way to prevent waves of coronavirus
Everything you need to know about coronavirus testing Yahoo: Mark Cameron, an associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, said that testing is the primary means—or the best tool, apart from dramatic public health measures—to ensure there aren’t subsequent…