Health + Wellness

Elizabeth Madigan Changing planes in Chicago after a recent health care conference became a teachable moment for Elizabeth Madigan, associate dean of academic affairs and the Independence Foundation Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school. The situation was used to dispel a p...

Prepared and presented by Paula Schultz BSN, RN, CNRN, UH Seidman Cancer Center, Office of Patient and Public Education Objectives Creating an environment where patients are allowed and encouraged to tell their illness story is a crucial yet often overlooked component of cultural competence in heal...

A researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded $3.9 million to determine if the combination of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and drug abuse is a double kick in the gut, leading to organ damage throughout the body. Alan D. Levine, PhD, a professor of med...

Alan D. Levine, PhD, a professor of medicine, molecular biology and microbiology, pathology and pharmacology, is one of five scientists nationwide to receive the competitive 2015 National Institute on Drug Abuse Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS Research. In addition to the $2.5 million Avante-Garde Aw...

Still early in his career, Paul Tesar’s continuous string of accomplishments grew even more robust on Jan. 20 when he was named the recipient of the prestigious International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the premier international award for young stem c...

Nicole Steinmetz Health care workers must diagnose and isolate Ebola victims at an early stage to have a chance to save them and prevent the virus from spreading. But the most sensitive and quickest diagnostic test produces a small percentage of false negative results that undermine efforts to cont...

Oregon scientists use same peptide supplied by Case Western Reserve scientist that reconnected nerves in spinal cord-injured animals Jerry Silver Case Western Reserve’s chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal arrhythmias ...

Modern Europeans have inherited about 4 percent of their genes from Neanderthals, meaning the two groups mated at some point in the past. But the question is, where and when? Characteristics of a partial skull recently discovered in Manot Cave in Israel’s West Galilee provide the earliest evidence ...

"Unanticipated" finding could shed light on sources of disease Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center researchers and physicians have discovered that the molecule known as coenzyme A plays a key role in cell metabolism by regulating the actions of nitric oxide. Cell m...

Cultural Competence in Research: Annotated Bibliography. The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (2009 & 2010) Cultural competence in research Cultural competency in research has been defined as: The ability of researchers and research staff to provide high quality research that t...