Health + Wellness

Outlet: The Washington Post...

Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from Case Western Reserve University will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to prev...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher, Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon collaborate on three-year project, aided by $600,000 grant A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a Case Western Reserve University cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in pinpointing...

Designed in response to high exposure rates, new screening measure expected to be implemented nationally One in five children in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are either exposed to, or are victims of, violence and trauma, according to a new study from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied S...

Findings could support first clinical trial Investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discovered that blocking interleukin-1α (IL1α), a protein that controls inflammation in the gut, markedly decreases the severity of intestinal inflammation in a mouse model of Crohn’...

Glen Taksler, PhD, received a 5-year, $3M grant from National Institute on Aging for “Testing the Effectiveness of Individualized Disease Prevention for Middle-Aged Adults.” The goal of the study is to help middle-aged adults make informed decisions about healthcare services, integrating a decisio...

Outlet: The Plain Dealer...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Donna Plecha, MD as she was recently named Chair of the Department of Radiology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Dr. Plecha has been a faculty member at University Hospitals since 1993, is a professor of radiology at C...

It’s holiday party season and this weekend, I went to several. At one, I met a distinguished emeritus faculty member, Jim Sampliner, who has been battling cancer. The first thing he said to me was, “I finished my ninth cycle of chemo last week, so I’m ready to go back to substituting at least in the...

SWOG, ECOG, Alliance, NRG, COG, and NCTN. What does this alphabet soup mean for advancing care for patients? Some view the cooperative groups as a mechanism by which studies, that the pharmaceutical industry will undertake, get done. A few even go as far as describe them as the place to conduct a ne...