Health + Wellness

New hope for breathing recovery after spinal cord injuriesStory By: Patty ZamoraAbout 300,000 Americans live with spinal cord injuries, and related respiratory complications are the leading cause of illness and death, according to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. But a new study led by…

For Stan Gerson, MD, a strategic plan is not a sit-on-a-shelf-and-gather-dust kind of document. It’s a living plan that speaks to our times, details the rationale and goals for potentially game-changing collaborations, and is adjusted annually to account for the unforeseen. Work on the School of…

New study from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals shows loss of nitric oxide in Alzheimer’s brains; Published in ‘Molecular Cell’

James P. Basilion, PhDProfessor of the Department of Radiology at the School of Medicine and of the Department of Biomedical EngineeringArea of Focus: Precision cancer diagnosis and treatment with molecular imagingDuring surgical intervention for cancer patients, completely removing cancerous…

When Dayton C. Miller, PhD (HON 1927), learned invisible light rays could pass through objects and leave images on film, he decided to experiment.In the winter of 1896, the Case School of Applied Science physics professor took X-rays of his body in sections on glass plates—and then put the plates…

Case Western Reserve’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing has long pioneered educational advances. Now, the school is again in the vanguard, developing a certificate program to address the human toll of workplace violence in healthcare.“As incidents of workplace violence affecting nurses and…

Zhenghe “John” Wang, PhDProfessor and Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of MedicineArea of Focus: Colon cancer therapyEarly in his career at Case Western Reserve University, Zhenghe “John” Wang, PhD, was teaching his students about…

A leader in oral surgery, Dr. Eichner reflects on his journey from CWRU to national advocacy

Pedram MohseniGoodrich Professor for Engineering Innovation and chair of the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems EngineeringArea of Focus: leveraging technological advances in microsensors and microelectronics to develop next-generation devices to improve patients' quality of lifePedram…

Patients in danger of bleeding out from trauma could be treated on site