Health + Wellness

From WPSD Local 6: Could the watch you are wearing end up saving your life? Current statistics show there are more than two hundred two million people worldwide wearing smart watches. But your fitbit and apple watch can do so much more than relay your messages, play music or track your steps. Whet...

The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing saw mixed results in the 2023 U.S. News & World Reports annual rankings due in part to changes in methodology. This year, FPB's rankings stand as: 14th Master's of Nursing (MN) program 20th Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) 6th DNP Administration Manag...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) have secured $6.2 million from two grants awarded in the same month from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to predict cardiovascular disease through new artificial intelligence (AI) approach...

As of 2022, there were more than 355,000 nurse practitioners licensed in the United States alone. These highly skilled professionals are an indispensable part of our health care system, providing a wide range of patient care across various health care settings. However, despite their vital role, man...

A Fierce Collaborator, Dr. Margolius’ Laser Focus on Health Priorities for Cleveland Will Help Eliminate Health Disparities This article is a part of our CTSC Translational Science Superheroes series. Dr. David Margolius had a long-term goal of working in public health or policy to help change t...

Mark Hans, DDS, MSD, and CWRU Professor and Chair of the Orthodontics Department, delivered the 2023 John Valentine Mershon Award Lecture at the AAO 2023 Annual Session in Chicago. The presentation, Two Score and Two Years-Lessons Learned, drew upon 42 years of clinical experience and more than 30...

Even as biomedical engineer Anirban Sen Gupta refines artificial platelets to stem traumatic bleeding, he and his colleagues are seeking new uses for their synthetic solution. The latest application to show promise involves providing synthetic platelets to treat a genetic condition that prevents bl...

By discovering how zebrafish use their hair cells to detect distant movement, a team of Case Western Reserve University scientists may have found a path to help explain human hearing loss. Even though the tiny water creatures and humans would appear to have nothing in common, the structure and func...

A century ago, Western Reserve University's trustee, Samuel Mather, gave $2.5 million to construct a new building marking the School of Medicine's establishment in University Circle from its downtown Cleveland location. The building was dedicated in October of the next year—in conjunction with the ...

Nobel Laureates: Ferid Murad earned both his MD and PhD degrees in 1965 from the school. He was part of a team awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998—“for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.” Alumnus Alfred Gilman ear...