Health + Wellness

Shanina Knighton, PhD, RN , CTSC KL2 Scholar and nurse scientist and instructor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, talks about the relative value of face masks against the coronavirus and emphasizes good hygiene, especially hand washing, as the the most effective protection against the virus...

Dear Cancer Center Community: As President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today, I am honored to take on the responsibilities of serving you as dean of the CWRU School of Medicine (SOM) on an interim basis as of July 1, 2020, while maintaining my position as director of the ...

The Master of Public Health (MPH) program turned 20 years old this week, celebrating the milestone with a symposium and dinner celebration on February 20, 2020. A dynamic program of education, research, and service, the mission of the Public Health program is to prepare students to develop, implemen...

The researchers used Artificial Intelligence (AI)—in this case, computer image analysis of the initial MRI scans taken of brain cancer patients—and compared that image analysis with genomic research to analyze the cancer. The result: a new and more accurate way to not only determine the relative lif...

Nikhil Krishnan describes his educational journey as a mix of math and medicine. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, he went on to pursue a medical degree at the School of Medicine. “I’ve been fascinated with math since grade school,” he said, “and was...

I returned this weekend from a business trip to a new coating of snow. Not just a dusting, but bona fide snow that glistened in the sun. It continued to snow, and in the evening it was still and soft and beautiful. And early Saturday morning, though I live on, at best, a secondary road, the plows s...

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Kishore Guda, DVM, PhD Kishore Guda, DVM, PhD, an associate professor of oncology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been awarded $200,000 by The DeGregorio Family Foundation and the Price Family—partnering with the Savone Family and The Esophageal Cancer Awareness...

Our School of Medicine recently joined the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIMH), becoming part of more than 70 highly esteemed academic medical centers and health systems across the U.S. Founded in 1999, the Consortium is committed to sharing information and ideas and supp...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Cleveland Clinic and Lifebanc (a Northeast Ohio organ-procurement organization) have developed a new way to preserve donated kidneys—a method that could extend the number and qual...