Health + Wellness

Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers build regeneration bridge For the first time, researchers have restored significant bladder function through nerve regeneration in rats with the most severe spinal cord injuries (SCI). The breakthrough paired a traditional nerve bridge graft…

CLEVELAND - Today, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Weatherhead Institute for Family Medicine and Community Health are hosting the second annual Ohio Health Data Symposium, a meeting for research and public health experts. The…

CLEVELAND - Three major Ohio universities and four hospitals have joined with the March of Dimes Foundation to establish a new collaborative research program aimed exclusively at finding the unknown causes of premature birth. The March of Dimes intends to invest $10 million in the program over five…

CLEVELAND - A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a novel method to disrupt this growth signaling pathway, with…

Case Western Reserve’s School of Medicine is leading a statewide effort to speed the progress of promising medications to patients—all by encouraging collaboration among Ohio’s health leaders. Thanks to a nearly $2 million investment from the State of the Ohio, more than a half dozen schools and…

CLEVELAND - Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. Their findings appear today in the online journal PLOS ONE. The researchers…

CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders. This discovery appears today in the…

CLEVELAND - A dermatology researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has secured a five-year, $1.9 million federal grant to explore whether a specific molecule may play a pivotal role in the development and progression of psoriasis. Nicole Ward, PhD, assistant professor of…

Last fall, Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff had the opportunity to complete a free, private Health Risk Assessment (HRA). More than 580 employees (10.9 percent of all employees) chose to complete the HRA. Results revealed that the participant group engages in healthy behaviors and…

CLEVELAND — A new method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could routinely spot specific cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and other maladies early, when they’re most treatable, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center suggest in…