Health + Wellness

Outlet: Cleveland Magazine

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 54 academic inventors to the Spring 2019 class of NAI SeniorMembers, including Stan Gerson, MD, Director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC). NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators from its Member…

Outlet: Crain's Cleveland Business

Outlet: Crain's Cleveland Business

There is no cure for the more than 1.6 million people in the United States living with Crohn’s disease (CD) and its symptoms, including abdominal pain, intestinal distress and severe weight-loss. CD is a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which the body’s own immune system attacks the…

Sangeeta Kashyap, MD, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Cleveland Clinic, and CTSC KL2 scholar alum, was part of a large, multi-institution study to determine whether vitamin D supplementation lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes. Their results have been published in the New…

CWRU team will provide policy recommendations for balancing safety, innovation While federal and professional regulatory systems monitor genetic-editing experiments in university and corporate labs, most research conducted outside of these settings lacks formal oversight. Now, two Case Western…

An admissions director on putting your best foot forward Medical School Headquarters: Christian Essman, director of admissions at the School of Medicine, weighed in on the medical school admissions process and gave tips to students as they navigate the application process.

Outlet: TCTMD

Wenquan Zou, MD, PhD, an expert in prion and degenerative neurological diseases, has received a two-year grant for developing diagnostic tools for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other related brain-based degenerative disorders via an innovative skin test that uses ultrasensitive…