Health + Wellness

When Life Experiences and Empathy Collide, Community Research Thrives  This article is a part of our Health Disparities Research Feature series.  Ever since Dr. Jin Kim-Mozeleski was young, she remembers being very curious. “I loved looking around and making connections, doing things, observing…

Stephen Sroka, adjunct professor at the School of Medicine, received the William A. Howe Award from the American School Health Association. This is the organization’s highest honor recognizing individuals for outstanding contributions and distinguished service in school health. Sroka was selected…

Shakuntala (Rita) Kothari, an assistant professor at the School of Medicine, was awarded the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians 2022 Evelyn V. Hess, MD, MACP Master Teacher Award. The award was presented in recognition of her consistently outstanding educational contributions to…

Benjamin George and Lauryn Bailey, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine students, won trainee research prizes for their work in non-small cell lung cancer. Their work will be presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) annual meeting later this month. George’s…

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…

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…