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I sold my house of 33 years last week. As the movers carried my furniture out, it felt as if my life was being disassembled item by item. A few of the boxes had pieces of my mother’s in them and some, of my grandmother’s. Out they went in a long continuous line. A builder constructed the house for…

Study: Rice Cookers May Actually Be A Good Way To Clean Face Masks Ideastream—WCPN: New research co-authored by Sarah Redmond, Curtis J. Donskey and Lucas Jones of the School of Medicine, is highlighted for examining whether brief treatments of steam—using a kitchen rice cooker—can decontaminate…

Please join us in extending congratulations to Alok Khorana, MD, professor of medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University on his recent appointment to Chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of the National Blood Clot Alliance (NBAC). Dr.…

A medical device based on technology developed by three faculty members from Case Western Reserve University and  University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), Drs. Sanford Markowitz, Amitabh Chak, and Joseph Willis, has won a prestigious 2020 Edison Best New Product Award.      EsoCheck , a…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) extends congratulations to Ruth Keri, PhD, professor of pharmacology and Case CCC Associate Director for Basic Research on her recent election to the Board of Directors for the Endocrine Society. Dr. Keri will serve a three-year term for the society…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to undergraduate Jack Kincaid on receiving first prize in the 2020 Michelson-Morley Research Competition in the Biological Sciences. Jack works in the lab of member Nathan Berger, MD, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute R25…

A study led by Justin D. Lathia, PhD (Bayik et al., Cancer Discovery, 2020) and conducted in collaboration with multiple Case Comprehensive Cancer Center member investigators (Ahmad M. Khalil, PhD; Tae Hyun Hwang, PhD; Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, MD and Feixiong Cheng, PhD) identified sex differences in…

In a Cleveland Clinic podcast , pulmonologist Raed Dweik, MD, discusses what the health system is doing to prepare for the wave of sick patients, as well as how it’s handling the current demand, prepping dedicated teams, designating space and training healthcare workers on properly using and…

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