Health + Wellness

Some of the body’s own genetic material, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), can be packaged and then unleashed as a precise and persistent technology to guide cell behavior, researchers at Case Western Reserve University report in the current issue of the journal, Acta Biomaterialia. The resea...

CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has discovered novel antivirulence drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Streptococcus pyogenes, commonly ref...

CLEVELAND - A new study published in a special issue of Substance Abuse finds that recovering alcoholics who help others in 12-step programs furthers their time sober, consideration for others, step-work, and long-term meeting attendance. These novel findings are from a 10-year, prospective investi...

A mother’s emotional health and education level during her child’s earliest years influence the child's oral health at age 14, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Dental Medicine. Researchers started with the oral health of the teens and worked backward to age ...

CLEVELAND - The healthcare industry, along with many others, is drowning in data. From electronic medical records to Medicaid data, the volume of information continues to grow and much of it is inaccessible. Today, the Ohio Department of Health and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ...

CLEVELAND - The three Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) institutions in Ohio — Case Western Reserve University, University of Cincinnati and The Ohio State University — and their partnering institutions have established a statewide collaborative agreement allowing a single organization...

Case Western Reserve University researchers have taken a dramatic step forward in the fight against cancer—all by starting at the very beginning. Scientists led by School of Medicine Professor Mark W. Jackson set out to find a gene with the potential to turn healthy cells into cancerous ones. By fo...

CLEVELAND - A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, led by Dr. Mark W. Jackson, have developed a novel method to identify genes that, when overexpressed, make normal cells behave like cancer cells. Using this method, the Jackson laboratory has identified a new on...

Case Western Reserve University’s ambitious collaboration to bring medical discoveries to patients has won an extraordinary endorsement: a $64.6 million federal grant that is the largest ever awarded in Northeast Ohio. “Five years ago Cleveland’s leading biomedical institutions came together in an ...

Imagine curing cancer without nausea, hair loss, swelling or any of the other maladies that can accompany chemotherapy or radiation. This week researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine took an extraordinary step toward realizing that remarkable vision. And, as so often happ...