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EsoCheck wins Edison Best New Product Award
A medical device based on technology developed by three faculty members from Case Western Reserve University and  University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Drs. Sanford Markowitz, Amitabh Chak, and Joseph Willis, has won a prestigious 2020 Edison Best New Product Award.      EsoCheck , a…
Keri elected to Endocrine Society Board
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) extends congratulations to Ruth Keri, PhD, professor of pharmacology and Case CCC Associate Director for Basic Research on her recent election to the Board of Directors for the Endocrine Society. Dr. Keri will serve a three-year term for the society…
Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cell Heterogeneity Comprises a Sex-specific Therapeutic Target for Glioblastoma
A study led by Justin D. Lathia, PhD (Bayik et al., Cancer Discovery, 2020) and conducted in collaboration with multiple Case Comprehensive Cancer Center member investigators (Ahmad M. Khalil, PhD; Tae Hyun Hwang, PhD; Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, MD and Feixiong Cheng, PhD) identified sex differences in…
CanSUR scholar receives undergraduate Michelson-Morley Award
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to undergraduate Jack Kincaid on receiving first prize in the 2020 Michelson-Morley Research Competition in the Biological Sciences. Jack works in the lab of member Nathan Berger, MD, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute R25…
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Case Western Reserve team studying ‘unprecedented’ levels of trauma caused by COVID-19 pandemic
In preliminary results, researchers found that 86% of respondents experienced at least one trauma symptom, 94% reported grief The COVID-19 pandemic could inflict long-lasting emotional trauma on an unprecedented global scale, leaving millions grappling with debilitating psychological disorders,…
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…
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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…
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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…