Health + Wellness
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 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 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…
October 03, 2019
As part of a recently announced $13 million federal grant to help combat the opioid epidemic in Northeast Ohio, Case Western Reserve University will play a big role in evaluating the project’s effectiveness. Under the new Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program, more than $2 million is earmarked…
September 30, 2019
Researcher at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing focuses on aging-related health issues among people living with HIV-AIDS A nurse scientist at Case Western Reserve University is further expanding her research on aging-related health challenges increasingly faced by people living longer with…
September 27, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has made pilot award selections following a recent RFA. Selected projects were recognized as highly innovative and impactful, and likely to generate key data for larger, nationally competitive grants. Investigators were permitted to submit…
September 26, 2019
This week, the New York Times featured an opinion piece written by three board members of the Physician-Scientist Support Foundation, including Mukesh Jain, MD, University Hospitals cardiologist, professor at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and member of the Case…
September 26, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Jame Abraham, MD as he was recently appointed Chair of the Hematology/Oncology Department at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Abraham directs the Breast Oncology Program at Taussig Cancer Institute and is co-director of the Cleveland Clinic…
September 25, 2019
New dental research from Case Western Reserve University identifies new approach to learning about seniors’ perception of their oral health How
do senior citizens perceive the importance of their oral health? The answer to
that question might make all the difference whether they’ll decide to…