Health + Wellness

Findings support restored memory function by as much as 50% About 11% of the U.S. population 65 and older has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia that results in memory loss and cognitive impairment, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. And the World...

About 5,000 children and teens in the United States are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each year, and the rate is increasing about 5% annually, putting thousands of children at risk for diabetic kidney disease (DKD). While DKD is still considered relatively rare in children, Katherine Kutney, an as...

Funding Opportunity! Limited Competition: Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Consortium-Wide Centers: Resources for Rapid Demonstration and Dissemination (U24 Clinical Trials Optional) Open Date/Earliest Submission Date: 5/21/22...

Article courtesy of CLIC - Center for Leading Innovation & Collaboration The National Center for Data to Health’s National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave houses the largest repository of COVID-19 data in the United States, with more than 4.5 million COVID+ patients. The N3C Data...

Article courtesy of CLIC - Center for Leading Innovation & Collaboration The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) has recently published a new manuscript providing recruitment and retention guidance for researchers as they are designing studies. The RIC consults with CTSA hubs on strategies to incre...

Article courtesy of CLIC - Center for Innovation & Collaboration In the recent Journal of Clinical and Translational Sciences (JCTS) thematic issue on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, institutions showcase their experience, approaches, and findings in the area of innovation and academic entrepreneu...

Findings point to importance of early cancer screenings among men with HIV Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have found there are nearly twice as many men with cancer among those living with HIV compared to men who do not have the human immunodeficiency virus. The rates of cancer are...

New research from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine suggests that the children younger than age 5 who are infected with the COVID-19 omicron variant have less risk of severe health outcomes than those infected with the delta variant. The study, published April 1 in JAMA Pediatrics,...

A charitable educational fund has been established in memory of esteemed colleague Professor Noa Noy. The fund is currently accepting donations to provide early-career scientists the opportunity to attend the annual Retinoid conference of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology...

Gloria Tavera, alumna of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, will be featured in the documentary White Coat Rebels, a film highlighting the efforts of medical students across the US as they fight the drug industry’s influence on healthcare. Tavera was an MD/PhD student in the Medica...