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Be Well: Health disparities Ideastream: Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor of law and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, discussed the symposium recently hosted by the School of Law, addressing racial disparity in health care.

What the new Medicare billing data show (and where to learn much more) The Plain Dealer: A searchable database of Medicare expenditures in Ohio was recently made available to the public, but J. B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, said "it’s not…

Amy Backus named Case Western Reserve's first female athletic director The Plain Dealer: On Friday, the university announced Amy Backus will be the new athletic director, marking the first female to permanently hold the position. Backus comes to CWRU from Yale University, where she was the senior…

Brain imaging reveals the diametric mind Psychology Today: Researchers led by Anthony Jack, assistant professor of cognitive science, philosophy and psychology, found brain-imaging evidence for dual-process theory.

A year after the raids: Haslam, Pilot Flying J continue court battles as Fed probe grinds on The Plain Dealer: According to Michael Benza, senior instructor in law, the duration of the fraud case against Browns owner Jimmy Haslam’s company Pilot Flying J is standard. “It is not unusual that it is…

Painful skin condition made Flaherty's health a public matter The Canadian Press: Neil Korman, professor of dermatology, discussed the recent death of Canada’s former finance minister, who had a serious skin condition but died of a heart attack. "My opinion, from taking care of people with this…

Gauging the intelligence of infants The New York Times: Twenty-five years after the late Leffingwell Professor of Psychology Joseph F. Fagan III first conducted the tests, preferential looking is still viewed as the chief indicator of infant intelligence explained Douglas Detterman, the Louis D.…

Is April a bad month? WTAM.com: The month of April marks the anniversaries of some of the nation’s most notorious attacks. Daniel Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, explains that the timeframe of these crimes…

More jobs don’t mean less poverty Ideastream.org: According to economists including Claudia Coulton, the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Research & Social Change, the assumption that poverty rates will decrease as a result of job influxes is a misnomer.

Maltzes raise CWRU gift to $30 million Cleveland Jewish News: Milton and Tamar Maltz have doubled their commitment to Case Western Reserve, now providing $30 million of the $64 million project cost of The Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple-Tifereth Israel.