Health + Wellness

We are already preparing for VeloSano 5 - an annual bike ride dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. I hope you will join us for the ride on July 21-22! All of the funds raised through VeloSano support cancer research. This event has quickly grown into the largest fundraising event for cancer rese...

Obesity can also alter a young person’s likelihood of developing cancer later in life A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis de...

Between 3 and 8 percent of children in the United States identify as LGBTQ, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA. But for children in foster care, the number is as high as 19 percent. Children with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are at greater risk for issues such as physi...

Case Western Reserve researchers reveal how anatomically distinct microcircuit brain networks suppress each other, compete and collaborate Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a previously unseen pattern among the rapid-firing neurons inside the brain, one that reveals how disti...

Case Western Reserve University computational imaging center gets $3.15 million federal grant Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) is leading a partnership working toward the first clinical trials to determine the aggressiveness of—a...

What leads to risky sexual behavior in adolescence seems to vary by gender, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University. For boys, there’s a direct connection to child abuse. For girls, marijuana use appears to be a risk factor. “In social science research there are so many fact...

Case Western Reserve, Stanford University and Uganda Heart Institute address childbirth issues for women with rheumatic heart disease Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)—or the rheumatic fever that causes it—as more than a historical footnote. Rheum...

With unprecedented access to data from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, Case Western Reserve University researchers gaining better understanding of sexual offenders New research from Case Western Reserve University has experts re-thinking what was previously believed about the patterns of serial...

Clinical trial finds short-term increases in inhaled steroids do not provide expected benefit in early stages of an attack Children with mild to moderate asthma do not benefit from a common practice of increasing their inhaled steroids at the first signs of an asthma exacerbation, according to clini...

Yesterday, the Ides of March. Tomorrow, St. Patrick’s Day. And today … Match Day at the School of Medicine! When they arrived here four or five years ago, these students knew that they had a lot to learn before deciding what path to follow. And now, they have chosen their medical specialties and th...