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Medicine’s Leena Khaitan discusses sources of indigestion
Outlet: US News & World Report
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Documentary has Cleveland premiere Jan. 30
New film chronicles previous 'BrainGate2' project, as Case Western Reserve works with University Hospitals and Cleveland FES Center to take research further, achieving natural arm, hand movements via thought Six years ago, a team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University, University…
Commentary on Current Tobacco-Related Policies: Youth, E-Cigarettes and Flavored Nicotine Products
The following is a message from Erika Trapl, PhD, Co-Leader of the Cancer Population, Control & Population Research Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Earlier this month, the American Cancer Society reported the largest single-year decline in cancer deaths at 2.2% and attributed this…
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Possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough suggested
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers say newly found protein is bio-marker for disease; suggest suppression of ‘aggregatin’ could lead to future treatments to slow Alzheimer’s progression Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine say they have…
Cancer Progress
This weekend saw the wide publication of the good news that for 2017, the death rate from cancer actually fell. There was double good news because one of the most deadly cancers – cancer of the lung – led the decline. New insights into the commonalities inherent in cancers that are more determined…
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$1M, two-year grant from Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust to advance CWRU research on therapies for Huntington’s disease
A $1 million, two-year grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust will allow researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to further their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurological disorders. Xin Qi, an…
Happy New Year!
It is the start of not only a new year, but a new decade. It’s a time for reflection on the year – and the last ten – gone by, and a time to consider the future.  Marsha Palmer, our new internal communications expert, has assembled a list of top ten stories from the medical school for the last…