Health + Wellness

Offers potential to transform therapies for prevalent diseases, including diabetic complications, cancer and autoimmune disorders Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that help fight illness and disease by traveling to the body’s infected site to seek and destroy harmful pathogens. Evi Stavr...

Case Western Reserve University scientists invent novel breath-controlled device that allows users to command “smart” technology and monitor breathing Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have invented a device that allows users to control “smart technology” by changing their breathing pa...

Case Western Reserve University’s health-related graduate and professional programs continued their prominence in this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings, with Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing demonstrating its lasting renown. The overall Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree impr...

Better sleep could save lives, improve care for the sick and prevent chronic disease Over the last decade, clinicians, scientists and the public have begun to realize precisely how connected sleep is to human health—discovering a relatively new area ripe for extensive research. ...

Bader G. Alreshidi, PhD, RN (GRS '22, nursing) received the Midwest Nursing Research Society's Dissertation Award from the Acute and Critical Care Across the Lifespan Research & Implementation Interest Group. Lisa Brannack, a PhD student, received the Donna Algase Dissertation Award from Frances Pa...

Researchers believe imaging could lead to better understanding of what causes fatal prion diseases Prion diseases are incurable, deadly neurological disorders that can affect both humans and animals–including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in people, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in cows (also known ...

Lack of Inclusive Data and Low Trust Remain Barriers to Advancement of Health Equity On Thursday, June 16, 2022, the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) hosted a REAL (Racial Equity and the Law) Talk webinar, titled Clinical Research Law and Policy, with the Cleveland Metropolit...

When James Anderson arrived in Cleveland in the 1960s after completing his PhD at Oregon State University, he intended to continue his academic career in chemical research at Case Institute of Technology. But just a few years later, his penchant for biomedicine inspired him to get involved in biomed...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine will use a $3.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand how HIV impacts the human body, from mouth lesions to oral cancer. HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system and inter...

The School of Medicine welcomed 216 new medical students at the annual White Coat ceremony on July 11 at Severance Music Center. At the annual "coating" ceremony, the first-year medical students receive their first white coats, a symbol of the profession which serves as a formal entrance to the medi...