Health + Wellness
October 18, 2019
Dear members of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center community: I am happy to announce that John Pounardjian, MBA has been appointed Associate Director of Administration at our exceptional center. This appointment comes after an extensive national search following the departure of former…
October 18, 2019
For the past three years, the National Cancer Institute has funded the Youth Engaged in Science (YES) program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), introducing and training underrepresented minorities to cancer care and research professions. The program is led by Nathan Berger, MD. Program…
October 16, 2019
U.S. Department of Defense awards $800,000 to Case Western Reserve for spinal cord injury research People
who live with spinal injuries often say that the first year of recovery is the
toughest—not only for them, but their caregivers as well. But
researchers and the people struggling with the…
October 16, 2019
New technology, jointly created by Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, offers a promising potential solution to women’s pelvic health disorders, including stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. That technology is the basis for a…
October 10, 2019
Participant in Youth Engaged in Science, a National Cancer Institute-funded program at Case Western Reserve Connor Harris, a science-minded teenager from Hudson, Ohio, wants
to know why African-Americans die from colorectal cancer at a higher rate than
other racial groups. His curiosity, fueled…
October 08, 2019
Comprehensive sequencing effort could reveal how bacteria cause gut wall damage Scientists have made genetic data publicly available for bacteria that
might be lurking inside the gut walls of patients chronically affected with severe
Crohn’s disease. By studying a surgically removed, damaged…
October 07, 2019
The Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology (CICB) is pleased to announce that it has been instrumental in helping to create The Book of OHDSI, 1 st Edition , the first textbook describing the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community, the OHDSI (OMOP) data…
October 07, 2019
William Kaelin, Jr., MD William Kaelin, Jr. from Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe from Oxford University and Francis Crick Institute and Gregg L. Semenza from Johns…
October 04, 2019
“Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab has the potential to become a platinum-free option for cisplatin-ineligible locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer patients in the first-line setting," said Christopher J. Hoimes, DO, hematologist/oncologist at University Hospitals, assistant…