Health + Wellness

While the novel coronavirus is disrupting every aspect of normalcy, the pandemic is also creating opportunities—for learning and community service, as faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered by stepping up to fill an urgent need at local community h...

Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing infection prevention and control expert says untrained store workers unaware of easy transfer of germs including viruses, bacteria Shanina Knighton, a nurse-scientist/researcher at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing who helped get the word out about pr...

Outlet: WebMD Health News...

Yesterday was Match Day, though you might not have known it. There was no enormous congregation of families at the Tink, from infants to grandparents, no professors slipping in at noon to cheer on their mentees, no balloons, no reception, no measuring for cap and gown, no news crews getting sound bi...

Wednesday was a busy day in a lonely cancer center office with a total of 9 conference and Zoom calls peppered throughout the day (starting at 7:30 am), enough to have my cell phone run dry. I also saw 5 rather sick patients with cancer who needed attention and treatment decisions. Our research and...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) extends congratulations to members Omar Mian, MD, PhD, Tae Hyun Hwang, PhD and Shilpa Gupta, MD as they were recently awarded a Translational Team Science Award from the Department of Defense totaling $2.3 million. Their project is entitled, "Dissectin...

The COVID-19 pandemic is moving fast and Ohio has responded with stiff measures to limit public interactions. We are hunkering down with our families and trying to sustain our critical research and education functions. For the most part, we have responded very well. Our graduate education has, for...

Dear Cancer Center community, This week brings an unprecedented shift in all our activities. For our physicians caring for cancer patients, a heightened awareness of our patients' risks for COVID-19 infection and complications. For each of us, a heightened awareness of changes in social interac...

Outlet: Houston Chronicle...

This tagline captures a great deal of the work of our School of Medicine. This week, these values were rewarded by our rise to #20 in medical school NIH research funding reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Biomedical Research rankings. Congratulations to all of our investigators!

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