Health + Wellness

Cleveland Metropolitan School District middle school students have been attending various “Learn to Beat Cancer” events at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to help spark their interest in science and scientific research. The final event of the year took place this past weekend on S...

In January, Case Western Reserve University was among just 12 institutions nationally chosen by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer research grants and extensive mentorship to six undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences—two each over the next three years. The un...

Opioids are not among the most effective—or longest lasting—options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of the results from more than 460 published studies has found. Ibuprofen and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) alone or in combination with acetaminoph...

Case Western Reserve researcher investigates the role of innate immunity Across the world, more than 200 million cases of malaria and nearly 500,000 deaths from the disease occur annually—more than 90 percent of which happen in Africa. Children in Africa can be diagnosed with malaria two or three ti...

A study by Eswar Shankar, PhD, found that combining two prostate cancer medications was more effective at killing cancer cells than giving them independently, opening the door to uncovering novel treatment paths. More than 22,000 research scientists from around the world gathered in Chica...

Reducing severity of PTSD symptoms long-term holds significant public-health and economic implications Both civilians and military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reap long-term benefits from psychotherapies used for short-term treatment, according to a new study from Case Wester...

I-Corps@Ohio program aims to advance research into products for medical treatments or surgeries Four medical-technology research teams at Case Western Reserve University will participate in focused entrepreneurial training through I-Corps@Ohio, an Ohio Department of Higher Education initiative creat...

On Saturday morning, April 7, a group of Bolton Middle School 7th grade students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District came to the CWRU School of Medicine for a lively three-hour experience, "Learn to Beat Cancer," sponsored by the CWRU Center for Science, Health & Society and the Case Com...

Case Western Reserve named among The Hartwell Foundation's Top Ten Centers of Biomedical Research Inborn errors of metabolism are rare single gene defects that involve mutations of enzyme proteins in key metabolic pathways. Many mutations are lethal to children at birth or in early childhood and are...

What is our medical school worth? For many of us, it is priceless. It’s not easy putting a price tag on producing physicians who care for patients and families, or supporting research scientists who develop new treatments and diagnoses for disease. And it’s equally difficult to assess the economic i...