Health + Wellness
March 20, 2019
Far from presaging gloom, the Ides of March has just capped a wonderful two-week run for the School of Medicine. Last Tuesday we learned that we were elevated a rank in the U.S. News & World Report rankings to #24 (and remained #1 in Ohio). In addition, two departments, Pediatrics and Internal…
March 18, 2019
Researchers from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing land $2.2 million federal grant to conduct largest trial of a resourcefulness intervention for affected families Nurse researchers at Case Western Reserve University have launched an extensive study to learn how parents can best deal with the…
March 18, 2019
“Asthma is a chronic lung condition that affects the airways,” says Dr. Sumita Khatri, Research Subject Advocate in our CTSC program and co-director of the asthma center at the Cleveland Clinic . Asthma stems from inflammation that causes airways to narrow, producing symptoms such as cough,…
March 15, 2019
Today at noon, medical students–including those from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and its Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine–opened envelopes to discover where their journey will take them for the next three to seven years as resident physicians. The National Residency Matching…
March 15, 2019
Outlet: Fox 8
March 15, 2019
NervGen Pharma Corp., a Vancouver-based company founded to develop regenerative-medicine technology licensed from Case Western Reserve University, raised about $7.5 million ($10 million in Canadian dollars) from an initial public offering. Shares of NervGen began trading on the Canadian TSX…
March 05, 2019
Case Western Reserve School of Nursing study seeks to fine-tune, personalize exercise, nutrition ‘prescriptions’ for patients; could also apply to diabetes, heart disease, others Although generally true, it’s not enough for health care professionals to simply advise patients to “exercise more and…
February 28, 2019
Alok Khorana, MD Time from new cancer diagnosis to starting treatment has increased over the past two decades - the median time to treatment at large academic centers is over six weeks. Delays in treatment are potentially linked to worse survival in certain cancers, especially…