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Risk-period-cohort method has broad implications for examining processes of change over time in longitudinal studies
In epidemiology, gerontology, human development and the social sciences, age-period-cohort (APC) models are used to study the variability in trajectories of change over time. A well-known issue exists in simultaneously identifying age, period and birth cohort effects, namely that the three…
An Admissions Director on Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Outlet: Medical School Headquarters
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Two students earn prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarships
Two rising seniors at Case Western Reserve University—William "Sam" Nutt, a biochemistry and Chinese major, and Christine Smothers, a nursing student—are 2019 recipients of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, established by…
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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…