Health + Wellness

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…