Health + Wellness
February 01, 2019
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was one of the authors of a paper that developed new pathology guidelines for accurate testing for breast cancer diagnosis for the College of…
January 30, 2019
A scientific team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic has developed a new way to identify second-line antibiotics that may be effective in killing germs already resistant to a first-line antibiotic – potentially helping overcome antibiotic resistance. This…
January 23, 2019
Microscopic examination of brain tissues of prion-infected animals. (Left) Staining shows spongiform degeneration. (Right) Staining shows intense misfolded prion protein. Prions can infect both humans and animals, causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, mad cow disease in…
January 21, 2019
The Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine is offering free and discounted dental care Feb. 4-5 as part of its bi-annual Admitting Days event. The dental school’s main clinic will offer services to new patients who sign up for a comprehensive-care treatment plan. Anyone at…
January 18, 2019
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January 18, 2019
Monday is Martin Luther King Day in America. Though much has improved in our country for African Americans since his tragic assassination in 1968 – the year that so much changed – we still live in a world where serious health disparities persist, and we have too few tools to combat them. As Dr.…
January 17, 2019
Results in mouse sepsis model lay foundation for clinical trials
Biochemists, microbiologists, drug discovery experts and infectious disease doctors have teamed up in a new study that shows antibiotics are not always necessary to cure sepsis in mice. Instead of killing causative bacteria with…
January 16, 2019
National Institutes of Health funded research to study cancer patients with HIV/AIDS
AIDS patients suffer higher rates of cancer because they have fewer T-cells in their bodies to fight disease. But new research examines why HIV-infected patients have higher rates of cancer—among the leading causes…
January 16, 2019
Only Ohio institution to receive funding all three years
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University its third $500,000 grant since 2016 for the CWRU Technology Validation and Start-Up Fund Program (CTP), a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty…
January 15, 2019
Bioethics of brain organoids to be explored by team led by CWRU researcher Insoo Hyun
Research scientists around the world are now able to investigate the structural, cellular and developmental intricacies of the human brain using bioengineered stem cell-based models called organoids. But the…