Health + Wellness

The concept was simple: If two compounds each individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, surely it’s worth trying the two together to see if even greater impact is possible. In this instance, Case Western Reserve cancer researcher Li Li, MD, PhD, could not have been more prescient. Not ...

Nutrition and weight-loss research in adults with disabling conditions is still in its formative stages Matthew Plow A review of nutrition and weight-loss interventions for people with impaired mobility found strategies are sorely lacking for people with neurological disabilities, according to a t...

Half a century ago, a concentrated global effort nearly wiped a disfiguring tropical disease from the face of the earth. Now, says Case Western Reserve’s James W. Kazura, MD, it’s time to complete the work. In a perspective column in the Feb.19 New England Journal of Medicine, Kazura responded to a...

Case Western Reserve University nurse scientist Amy Zhang, who has long examined quality-of-life issues in cancer patients, wondered whether depression in African-American cancer patients has been under-recognized for treatment. Accurately assessing depression in cancer patients is difficult in gen...

Case Western Reserve researchers play key role in clinical trials’ groundbreaking results Case Western Reserve University researchers are part of an international team that discovered that a common herpes drug reduces HIV-1 levels—even when patients do not have herpes. Published online in Clinical ...

Case Western Reserve scientists have discovered that speed matters when it comes to how messenger RNA (mRNA) deciphers critical information within the genetic code — the complex chain of instructions critical to sustaining life. The investigators’ findings, which appear in the March 12 journal Cell,...

Case Western Reserve University dental researcher Pushpa Pandiyan discovered a new way to model how infection-fighting T cells cause inflammation in mice. The hope is that the discovery can lead to new therapies or drugs that jump-start weakened or poorly functioning immune systems, said Pandiyan, ...

Susan Mazanec After studying cancer survivors and their family caregivers, researchers at Case Western Reserve University concluded that the period between the final cancer treatment and first post-treatment checkup may be an ideal time for the entire household to jumpstart a healthy lifestyle. “A...

People are more likely to blame God for their bad moral behavior when they believe they were born to act that way, according to an ongoing Case Western Reserve project on spirituality and religion. A growing body of research demonstrates that feelings of anger, disappointment, or mistrust toward Go...

Postmenopausal women susceptible to bone fractures may also be a higher risk for gum disease, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and Case/Cleveland Clinic Postmenopausal Health Collaboration (CCCPOHC). Researchers found a link between postmenopausa...