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National Institute on Aging awards $4.23 million to establish Cleveland Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
New center to be one of 31 NIH-funded centers in the nation The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health awarded a $4.23 million grant to establish the Cleveland Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The two-year award will support the development of a multi-institution…
Combining Antibiotics, Researchers Deliver One-Two Punch against Ubiquitous Bacterium
By combining two well-established antibiotics for the first time, a scientific team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center has delivered a “double whammy” against the pervasive Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially deadly form of…
How Doctors Can Enter the World of Medical Writing
Outlet: MD Magazine
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Drug to treat malaria could mitigate hereditary hearing loss
Drug activates sensory proteins in aquatic model of human hearing The ability to hear depends on proteins to reach the outer membrane of sensory cells in the inner ear. But in certain types of hereditary hearing loss, mutations in the protein prevent it from reaching these membranes. Using a…
AI framework can inform radiation therapy dosage using patient medical scans
In a new paper published in Lancet Digital Health, recent CTSC KL2 Scholar grad and radiation oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Mohamed Abazeed and colleagues show that an artificial intelligence (AI) framework can provide personalized radiation dosage based on data from CT scans and…
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New research highlights inequalities in nursing-home care for minorities
Case Western Reserve researcher suggests social workers need to play a bigger role in skilled-nursing facilities as baby boomers age America is expected to become a “majority-minority” nation by 2045, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 2030 alone, racial and ethnic minorities are expected to…
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Professionalism
Our new medical students arrive in a few short weeks and our graduate students will start at various times throughout the summer.  All our students possess the intellectual capability to succeed. What we provide is a challenging curriculum to train their minds.  But equally important is what we…