Health + Wellness

Date / Time Session Title / Details Friday, June 1st 1:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Clinical Problems in Oncology Session Rm. E253c Clinical Challenges for Stem Cell Transplants: Selecting the Proper Patient, Timing, and Donor · Stem Cell Transplant with Les...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will host an exciting evening to benefit pediatric research in genetic disorders with gourmet chef-action stations and menu by Cleveland celebrity chef Fabio Salerno of Lago-Cucina, Entoteca, Birreria, with Fox 8 News anchors Natalie Herbick and Gab...

Researchers receive $9M NIH grant to develop infrared technology for understanding, managing the peripheral nervous system’s role in many illnesses Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and the University of Pittsburgh received a four-year, $9 mil...

Revised guidelines spotlight need for improving patient transitions to adulthood Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects males—live into their 30s and beyond, raising challenges in such a...

Last Sunday, 195 of our graduates walked across the stage of Severance Hall to receive their diplomas and the hood of the MD degree. We allow relatives who are also physicians to hood their family members and this year 47 did so, which if not a record, must be close. In addition, students can ask fa...

African American infants born prematurely are at higher risk for recurrent wheezing. This condition can cause the baby discomfort and is a risk factor for developing asthma later in life. There are no widely-accepted therapies to prevent prematurity-associated wheezing. In a first-of-its-kind study...

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit established through bipartisan congressional support in the 2014 Farm Bill, today announced five grants totaling $4.4 million for research to improve interventions designed to enhance community food systems. The FFAR awards were matched b...

University Hospitals’ physicians to implement technology Case Western Reserve University and Lucid Diagnostics, a subsidiary of publicly traded New York-based medical device company PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: PAVM), have signed an exclusive license agreement to commercialize a technology that quickly and ...

The most common heart medications may get an assist from nitric oxide circulating in the body, according to a new study out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Researchers showed that nitric oxide may help commonly used heart drugs maximize their benefits while improving heart fun...

Case Western Reserve University’s diagnostic imaging computers outperform human counterparts, but offer tools for better, less costly care The "deep learning" computers in Anant Madabhushi’s diagnostic imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University routinely defeat their human counterparts in diagno...