Health + Wellness

Case Western Reserve University and NervGen Pharma Corp., based in Vancouver, have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to research, develop and commercialize a patented technology with potential to bring new therapies for spinal-cord injury and other conditions associated with nerve damage...

Student-run EMS trains hundreds on campus on how to control bleeding in an emergency Editor's Note: As of June 30, 2019, Case Western Reserve uses Rave Guardian. CWRU Shield is no longer active and should be deleted from all mobile devices. Download Rave Guardian on the App Store and Google Play. I...

Scientists have long known that RNA encodes instructions to make proteins. The building blocks that comprise RNA—A, U, C, and Gs—form a blueprint for the protein-making machinery in cells. To make proteins, the machinery latches on RNA at one end and then scans along the RNA until it reaches an AUG ...

CWRU’s Jane Timmons-Mitchell co-authors book outlining suicide prevention Suicide prevention shouldn’t be limited to hotlines and therapy sessions. In addition, caregivers in hospitals and primary-care offices should be trained to identify suicide warning signs. That’s according to Jane Timmons-Mit...

Technology developed by Case Western Reserve researchers; licensed by Technology Transfer Office XaTek Inc., a Cleveland-based company developing a portable sensing system that can quickly assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood, recently raised $9.1 million in Series A capital to further ad...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found a nanobody that holds promise to advance targeted therapies for a number of neurological diseases and cancer. In a recent study published in Nature Communications, Sahil Gulati, of the Department of Pharmacology at Case ...

Tomorrow is the Fourth and it is July—steamy and sunny. Without assiduous watering, the flowers droop and wilt, and the humans come down with heat stroke! Air conditioning is the order of the day, and older homes in our inner-ring suburbs fight to stay cool. Robocalls from the city warn elderly re...

No one ever said being a nurse was easy. But these days, it can feel harder than ever for the next generation of care providers, health care leaders, and nurse scientists. Technology changes faster than academic curricula. The volume and complexity of patient care required in practice outpaces clini...

By Shelly Koski Last December, dozens of soon-to-be graduates of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing crossed the stage of the Maltz Performing Arts Center at Temple-Tifereth Israel for the school's biannual Pinning Ceremony, a symbolic welcome into the nursing profession. ...

Nursing student-athletes juggle practices, academics and hours of clinical work to be at the top of their games. Story by Sue Valerian | Photography By Roger Mastroianni Nina Cepeda was uncertain about attending Case Western Reserve University before her recrui...