Health + Wellness

I would like to alert our membership of the two-year initiative I set out for the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) at the national meeting last week. As President of AACI for the next two years, I asked all the cancer centers to participate in a review of practices and approaches to...

Funding will help researchers gather and share data, leading to better treatments A Midwest Big Data consortium including Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher Satya Sahoo has won more than $1 million in federal funding to advance neuroscience research. Sharing and using suc...

A multi-institution academic-industrial partnership of researchers led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has developed a new method to broadly assess cell communication networks and identify disease-specific network anomalies. The computer-based method, called InFlo, was develope...

Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have received grants totaling $40,000 from Ann Arbor-based Eversight, a global nonprofit network of eye banks. The CWRU projects are aimed at helping glaucoma patients and those with Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy. Eversight re...

Researchers at the Center for Global Health & Diseases at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and international colleagues, have provided the first of its kind comprehensive assessment of the current status of malaria in Madagascar, laying the groundwork for the 2018-2022 national st...

Guest Commentary: Megan Kilbane, MBA, Assistant Dean for Oncology 2016 has been described as the year of 216, and it would be hard for anyone to argue that it is not truly the year for Cleveland to shine. From the Cavs to the Monsters and soon to be the Indians, we are grabbing championships left ...

A catalytic research fund and a new partnership with The Hartwell Foundation will bolster critical research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) at the International Center for Autism Research and Education (ICARE) at Case Western Reserve University. The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation committed $10...

Forgoing a reliance on motivation, families can adopt healthy behaviors—eating better and exercising more—by following a new approach that focuses on the redesign of family daily routines. In a series of pilot tests of the approach—known as “SystemCHANGE”—by nursing scientists at Case Western Reser...

A team of Case Western Reserve University researchers has been recognized with the Patent for Humanity award by the Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office for the development of a portable, battery-operated device that uses magnets and lasers to quickly and inexpensively det...

A team of biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University is among seven of 23 research teams from the 2016 I-Corps@Ohio program selected to present to potential investors at the upcoming Ohio Collegiate Venture Showcase. The team will present its new technology in brain tumor treatment mana...