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Researchers link health-related social needs to hospital readmissions
They encourage health systems to use their complete billing code system to inform care and community benefit investment Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found a clear link between the extent of a patient’s social needs and hospital readmissions. Their…
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Cleveland Clinic celebrates 100 years of care
On February 26, 1921, four physicians hosted a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio to celebrate the opening of their group practice, unveiling a new model of care based on cooperation between clinicians. Throughout the year, Cleveland Clinic is celebrating its 100-year history with virtual events, digital…
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center earns National Pancreas Foundation Center Designation
University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, part of the NCI-designated Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been nationally recognized as an approved NPF Center by the National Pancreas Foundation. NPF Centers are awarded after a rigorous audit review to determine that an institution’s focus is on…
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Using artificial intelligence to prevent harm caused by immunotherapy
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University discover biomarkers to identify lung cancer patients who could be made worse by same drugs that helps many others Researchers at Case Western Reserve University, using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze simple tissue scans, say they have…
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Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to lead Northeast Ohio initiative to increase prostate cancer screening in African American men
Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation African American men in Cuyahoga County have a 60% increased risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and an 80% increased risk of dying from prostate cancer compared to white men, according to data from the Case…
Ting, collaborators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center awarded $1M grant from W.M. Keck Foundation to study host-microbe epigenetic crosstalk
Please join us in congratulating Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute's Angela Ting, PhD as she is co-leading a team of investigators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Cleveland Clinic who were recently awarded $1 million in medical research grant funding from the W.M. Keck…
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Thank you and best wishes to Dr. de Lima
We thank Marcos de Lima, MD as he is headed off to The Ohio State University. He has had a very large impact as a program leader for our Hematopoietic and Immune Cell Biology Program and head of the Hematological Malignancies Division of UH Seidman Cancer Center. He helped promote cell and immune…
New method of counting tumor cells offers possibility of a “liquid biopsy”
From Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: In a new study published in the Journal of Chromatography A, Cleveland Clinic researchers, led by Aaron Fleischman, PhD and Maciej Zborowski, PhD, reveal findings from a new device they've developed to identify and perform differential counts of…
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Accepting Applications: Summer 2021 Federal Grant Writing Workshop
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is inviting applications to participate in a summer-long, weekly federal grant writing workshop. The longitudinal workshop will occur Wednesday afternoons from 3:00 to 4:30 pm beginning April 28, 2021 and ending August 4, 2021 (note: the first two sessions on…
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Artificial intelligence tool for reading MRI scans could transform prostate cancer surgery and treatment
Researchers at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) at Case Western Reserve University have preliminarily validated an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to predict how likely the disease is to recur following surgical treatment for prostate cancer. The tool,…