Health + Wellness

Grant will support examining impact of pain and inflammation on eye’s surface and possible link to diseases The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine a five-year, $7.3 million grant to identify new technology, methods and models to study ...

Do people living with HIV age prematurely? Medscape: Joachim Voss, professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, discussed a new study that suggests people living with HIV may develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension earlier than those without HIV, as well as chronic kidney ...

There are many Case Western Reserve University students, faculty and staff who have served our country–John Durfee, DVM, director of the animal resource center in the School of Medicine is one of those veterans. Durfee served in the United States Air Force from 1974 to 1979 in the aftermath of the ...

While you may not have heard the term before, “sextortion”—or “image abuse”—takes place all too often. This form of blackmail occurs when a person threatens to expose explicit images of an individual to make them do something, such as pay money to the blackmailer.Unfortunately, college and graduate ...

Recognized yearly on Nov. 1—the day after the candy-filled and cavity-inducing Halloween holiday— National Brush Day reminds us to clean away all that sugar and reinstate some healthy habits to improve our oral health. To refresh the Case Western Reserve University community on best practices for t...

The CTSC Is READI to Ramp Up Accessibility in Our Efforts and Impact This article is a part of our CTSC special feature series. In July 2022, the CTSC published an article titled Less Accessibility, More Problems in reference to accessibility challenges and barriers found in the current state of t...

"Offering a Vision on Climate Change and Nursing,"From Daily Nurse Mary Quinn Griffin, associate dean for international affairs and the May L. Wykle Endowed Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, discussed the overarching impact of climate change on the field of nursing. “We are ...

In October, pink ribbons become a common sight as organizations promote breast cancer awareness. The goal of these efforts is to encourage those at risk of developing the disease to get mammograms in hopes of catching potential diagnoses early, when treatment is most effective. But despite efforts...

Edward Yu, professor of pharmacology at the School of Medicine, led a team of researchers in publication of an article titled “Inhibition mechanism of NKCC1 involves the carboxyl terminus and long-range conformational coupling, leading to arrest of the cotransporter” in Science Advances. The team i...

A team of researchers, led by Pathology Professor Vincent M. Monnier recently had their work published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Their paper was titled” α-Crystallin chaperone mimetic drugs inhibit lens γ-crystallin aggregation: Potential role for cataract prevention” and included the ...