Health + Wellness

Nearly 50% of women skip preventative health appointments—here are the checkups to prioritize From Health: Mary Franklin, assistant professor and director of the Nurse Midwifery Program at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, discussed the importance of routine and preventative health…

Dear colleagues,  In honor of a remarkable career, I share the news about the death of faculty emeritus Dr. Randall D. Cebul whose medical career focused on improving the quality of care for populations most in need. We have lost a true champion for those whose voices often go unheard. Joining…

Thomas Van Dyke, DDS, PhD, a Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine alum, will deliver the address for this year's diploma ceremony. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Science from Case Western Reserve (CWR '69), Van Dyke went on to receive his Doctorate of…

Dr. Tarabichi’s Data Obsession Shines in the Clinical Space  This article is a part of our Health Disparities Researcher Feature series. Yasir Tarabichi, MD, pulmonary, sleep, and critical care physician at MetroHealth Medical Center, has always been a self-proclaimed “tech and data geek”.…

The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University again ranked as a top school of nursing for research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The School of Nursing received $4.6 million from the NIH and ranked 16th nationally for schools of nursing for…

Four faculty members of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing recently traveled to Thailand for the 5th International Conference on Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions: Nursing Innovation in the Next Era. The conference is held every four years and this was the first time…

In this The Conversation article, Elizabeth Damato, associate professor of nursing, discusses the negative health effects of daylight savings time and what happens when your body doesn't get enough sleep. On Sunday in (most) of the United States, we again advanced the time on our clocks by one…

Paul Berg, PhD  [GRS'52], Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in the field of genetic engineering, who earned his PhD in biochemistry from Western Reserve University in 1952, died last month. Berg became the university’s first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1980 when he was awarded the prize “for his…

In late February, students in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program collaborated with Masters of Engineering and Management students from the Case Western Reserve University School of Engineering on an engineering course project that seeks to develop a product or process that could reduce…

In a paper published in Genes & Development, investigators identified the protein WRD5 as a promising way to turn off cancer “stemness” at a molecular level, clearing the way for treatment like chemotherapy to kill glioblastoma cells. Cancer stem cells, like regular stem cells, can inherently…