Health + Wellness

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…

Case Western Reserve University Department of Radiology faculty member Mark Griswold won the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. This award was “established in 2012 to acknowledge and celebrate high levels of achievement in the field of…

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty member Karen Mulloy won the 2023 F. Marian Bishop Educator Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR).  This award recognizes an APTR member who has made significant and outstanding contributions to the…

In a classroom at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic, a small group of second-year School of Dental Medicine students stand in a circle around a digital cadaver. Together, they dissect the virtual three-dimensional body—removing layers of skin,…