Health + Wellness
June 25, 2019
More than 125 million people
worldwide wear contact lenses, and while many are exposed to relatively common
bacteria through their contact lenses, not all contract an eye infection. Researchers at the
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland
Medical Center…
June 23, 2019
New research urges more rigorous standards when diagnosing Not
all burning mouths are the result of a medical condition known as “burning
mouth syndrome” (BMS) and physicians and researchers need better standards for
an appropriate diagnosis, according to new research at the School of…
June 19, 2019
Probiotic found to help weaken stubborn microbial biofilm communities in the gut that can worsen symptoms Probiotics typically aim to rebalance bacteria populations in the gut, but new research suggests they may also help break apart stubborn biofilms. Biofilms are living microbial…
June 18, 2019
Congratulations to the FPB alumni selected as inductees for the 2019 Class of American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Fellows. Aliza Bitton Ben-Zacharia, DNP, ANP-BC Associate Co-Director of Research and Innovation at Mount Sinai Hospital and Adjunct Professor at New York University Rory Meyers…
June 17, 2019
Mandel School graduate students found Community Health Initiative aimed at providing social work assistance to men’s homeless shelter Recent
Case Western Reserve University graduates Jamie Bohunicky and Kasey Clouse were
just looking to put into practice skills they’d learned at the Jack, Joseph…
June 13, 2019
The ability to quickly move patients by medical helicopter is especially vital in what is known as the golden hour--that first hour after a traumatic injury, considered the most critical for successful emergency treatment. "For true emergencies, it is quicker and better to transport someone by…
June 12, 2019
AAN Living Legend Ruby L. Wilson, EdD, MSN, RN, FAAN, reflects on how effective leadership drives progress Ruby Wilson's resume reads like a 60-year history of nurse leadership and innovation. Before she earned her master's degree at Case Western Reserve University in 1959, she had already worked…
June 12, 2019
Outlet: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
June 12, 2019
By Michelle Koski with Helen Jones-Toms | Forefront Magazine, Spring 2019 Sixty years ago, the BSN Class of 1959 graduated from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and headed out into the world with their newly minted nursing degrees. Over the decades, they have had careers, families and…
June 12, 2019
By Caitlin Fertal | Forefront Magazine, Spring 2019 As a trainer for the Stop the Bleed program at Case Western Reserve University, second-year nursing student James Sobieski has taught life-saving skills to hundreds of students with Case Western Reserve University Emergency Medical Service (CWRU…