Health + Wellness

A special class of white blood cell could offer insights regarding ways to spur regeneration in two of the most devastating and stubborn forms of nerve damage—those to the brain and spinal cord. In a study published in October in the Journal of Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve University School o...

Discovery from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic researchers may spare patients from disappointing results A discovery from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers could provide epilepsy patients invaluable advance guidance about their chances to improve symptoms throug...

A discovery from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers could provide epilepsy patients invaluable advance guidance about their chances to improve symptoms through surgery. Assistant Professor of Neurosciences Roberto Fernández Galán, PhD, and his collaborators have identified a new...

Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine alumnus Theodore Castele, MD, FACR, was awarded the prestigious 2013 Outstanding Volunteer Award by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in recognition of his extraordinary fundraising effort on behalf of the School of Medicine, and ...

A special class of white blood cell could offer insights regarding ways to spur regeneration in two of the most devastating and stubborn forms of nerve damage – those to the brain and spinal cord. In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve Univer...

A $7.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will establish the NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR), a comprehensive, easily accessible and well-annotated national repository o...

Derek Taylor, PhD, a member of the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH awards this grant to scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical r...

Case Western Reserve University researchers published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases, rare neurodegenerative disorders that are always fatal. The researchers discovered that recombinant human prion protein stops the propagation of prio...

University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine announce today that internationally renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, Soon J. Park, MD, will join the two institutions October 14. Dr. Park will serve as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at UH Case...

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) new Provocative Questions research funding program has awarded a prestigious grant to researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University’s Schools of Medicine and Engineering to study tumor detection at the earliest stages of...