Health + Wellness

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…

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…

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…

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…

Cleveland – The Ohio Third Frontier Commission unanimously awarded Case Western Reserve University’s  National Center for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), $2.4 million for its OH-Alive Innovator Platform: A Process and Manufacturing Platform for Cell Therapy.  These funds must be matched by NCRM and…

CLEVELAND - Nationally renowned researcher Mukesh K. Jain, MD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been elected to serve as vice president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). In the subsequent two years he will serve as president elect and ultimately…

CLEVELAND - A new study published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of Neurosciences details the development of the first mouse model engineered to carry the most common mutation in Usher syndrome III causative gene (Clarin-1) in North America. Further, the research team from Case Western Reserve…

It is intuitive that most people would be less likely to take risks after an unexpected loss. But what happens after a surprising win? It turns out that the very same trend applies, according to Case Western Reserve University psychologist Heath Demaree. In other words, it’s not whether you win or…

When a healthy boy was infected with antibiotic-resistant bacterium, the infection was traced to his mother’s nurse’s bag, which was left in the family’s car after her home health care visit to a patient with the same infection. Although the boy’s infection and the patient’s infection were never…