Health + Wellness

Telemedicine Is Not Enough Gizmodo: Amy Sheon, executive director of the School of Medicine’s Urban Health Initiative, offered thoughts on the health and digital disparities that often fall along socioeconomic lines, noting how the COVID-19 pandemic has lifted certain barriers to care—like…

Case Western Reserve University professors testing publicly available program that gives real-time, location-based risk assessment for transmission of novel coronavirus Public-health experts and government officials have been calling for “social distancing,” asking people to stay home and avoid…

Outlet: Columbus Dispatch

Data, not dates: What doctors need to know before sports should return to normal The Athletic (subscription required): Mark Cameron, an associate professor at the School of Medicine, as well as a self-described rabid hockey fan—often driving more than four hours from Cleveland to Toronto to watch…

The following is a message from the Associate Director for Clinical Research, Mitchell Machtay, MD and Deputy Associate Director for Clinical Research, Mikkael Sekeres, MD. Patients with cancer often turn to clinical trials because their other treatment options are limited. Though there has been a…

A study led by Nima Sharifi, MD (Hearn, Jama Oncol, 2020) found the adrenal-permissive HSD3B1 allele is associated with earlier castration resistance and shorter overall survival among men with low-volume metastatic prostate cancer. These findings lay the foundation for more personalized and…

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Case Western Reserve University Translational Fellows Program (TFP). This program is designed to train individuals in entrepreneurship and the translation of innovation while protecting time for entrepreneurial activities. We are seeking applications…

For the past 15 years, Research ShowCASE has brought the Case Western Reserve University community together to celebrate remarkable inventions, solutions and discoveries of research. In recent years at this event, the university has recognized outstanding faculty contributions with the Faculty…

Outlet: The Atlantic

Outlet: Cleveland.com