Health + Wellness

As part of our 175th anniversary celebration, we are focusing on a different aspect of our history. This month it’s imaging - and our record goes back more than a century. In 1905 Walter C. Hill, MD, was appointed the first radiologist at Lakeside Hospital, about when the institution first purchased...

Study provides hope for Rett syndrome patients and others across autism spectrum It is a parent’s nightmare: A child is born apparently healthy, then stops meeting developmental milestones at one year old. Her verbal and motor skills vanish, and irregular breathing, seizures, and a host of other pro...

The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors met November 29, 2017, and the slide decks were recently released. The slides provide a snapshot of the direction of the NCI, and include funding opportunities and access to NCI resources that are useful for many investigators across the Case CCC. Please review...

Case Western Reserve University and Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. recently announced the award of an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a planned study of gene-edited T cells designed to eradicate persistent HIV infection in patients receiving anti-retroviral therapy, a combina...

We’ve been experiencing a lot of volatility this last year. The stock market has shown us wild gyrations this last month – one day your 401k was beckoning you toward retirement, the next to hunker down and earn some more money! The temperature, after stubbornly sitting in the teens, suddenly began t...

Blocking action of gene enhancers halts spread of tumor cells In one of the first successes of its kind, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spreading of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. In doing so, they...

Exercise has numerous, well-documented health benefits. Could it also play a role in preventing and reducing substance misuse and abuse in adolescents? This is the intriguing question that a team of investigators from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic seeks to a...

The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University was selected for the second straight year as one of 31 schools to receive a grant to increase the number of nurses earning doctorate degrees. The schools comprise the fifth cohort of grantees of the Robert Wood Johnson Fo...

The report that Apple will develop applications to download access of our personal electronic medical record to our personal smart phones (Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone, NY Times) could be transformational for medical care, our sense of medical wellbeing...

Multi-drug resistant Candida auris no match for novel compound Microscopic yeast have been wreaking havoc in hospitals around the world—creeping into catheters, ventilator tubes, and IV lines—and causing deadly invasive infection. One culprit species, Candida auris, is resistant to many antifungals,...