Health + Wellness

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With the significant rise in youth and adolescent diabetes over the last four decades, Rose Gubitosi-Klug’s work has not only changed the understanding of this challenging illness—it has impacted how patients are managed. A member of the Case Western Reserve University faculty since 1999,…

The college my husband Jim attended had an informal ten-foot rule (even way back then.) The rule was: if you approach another person within ten feet, greet him/her, speak and pass by with pleasantries. The obvious goal behind this rule was to reach out and connect with people.  Sadly, our new…

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…

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…