Health + Wellness

Patients in critical condition are often incapable of making their own health care decisions. Instead, a family member or someone else may have to decide end-of-life care on the patient’s behalf. Ronald Hickman Jr., assistant professor of nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Cas...

The choice to die at home surrounded by loved ones comes too late for some cancer patients. Why that happens and how to change the process so more patients may die as they wish is the focus of new research individuals at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will p...

CWRU studies LGBT community’s perceptions of dental care A dentist’s uncomfortable reaction upon learning a patient is transgender creates a barrier that prevents some patients from returning, according to a new study that examined how members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) com...

Case Western Reserve University, as a global health education leader, will present Ebola expert, Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, for a special lecture on the unfolding crisis. He will detail his experiences, “From the Front Lines of the Battle with Ebola,” from 2 to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, in the Wols...

Mothers of twins struggle to get sufficient, uninterrupted sleep, what with double feedings and all. But a new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s nursing school finds that fathers don’t fare much better. “Both mothers and fathers are coming up short on the recommended eight h...

For the second consecutive year, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has landed one of the year’s much-coveted Director’s New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Principal investigator Rong Xu, PhD, assistant professor of medical informatics, wi...

Case Western Reserve University’s synchrotron facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory is on its way to becoming the No. 1 beamline facility for biology in the world by early 2016, thanks to a jumpstart grant of $4.6 million from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIB...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing who studied the emotional distress of caring for a family member diagnosed with a mental illness found anxiety is high for the primary caregiver at the initial diagnosis or early in the course of the illness, and...

A common Asian spice and cancer-hampering molecules show promise in slowing the progression of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung’s lining often linked to asbestos. Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt, Germany, demonstrate that application of curcum...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is no longer a fatal condition, thanks to newer medications inhibiting the retrovirus, but a puzzling phenomenon has surfaced among these patients: non-AIDS complications. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have resolved the ...