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Students launch grassroots effort to assist health care workers during COVID-19
When the COVID-19 outbreak started to become increasingly prevalent in Northeast Ohio, Mitchell Thom, a first-year medical student at Case Western Reserve University, and his friends were looking for ways to help. The group started discussing how much physicians and health care employees on the…
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MedSupplyDrive@cwru connects businesses willing to donate personal-protective equipment with local hospitals
Isaac Levine, a third-year medical student who was pulled off his clinical rotation when COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, found himself with free time and wanted to do something to help those on the front lines. He joined forces with fellow students Abby Gross and Daniel Li to address the…
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Students launch grassroots effort to assist health care workers during COVID-19
When the COVID-19 outbreak started to become increasingly prevalent in Northeast Ohio, Mitchell Thom, a first-year medical student at Case Western Reserve University, and his friends were looking for ways to help. The group started discussing how much physicians and health care employees on the…
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XaTek Inc. receives FDA’s "Breakthrough Devices Designation" for CWRU-licensed ClotChip technology
Further advances hand-held blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted XaTek Inc. a “Breakthrough Devices Designation” for ClotChip, an important step in advancing the company’s portable blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization. The…
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Mark Cameron, from School of Medicine, says there’s no reason to be afraid of the test for coronavirus
The coronavirus test isn't as scary as it looks Mashable: Mark Cameron, an associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, described the swabbing test required to determine if a person has COVID-19, which requires a health professional to insert what is…
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School of Medicine’s Robin Jump discussed the growing number of coronavirus cases in nursing homes
More Than 1,000 Coronavirus Cases Among New York Nursing Homes Wall Street Journal: Robin Jump, associate professor of medicine, spoke about the growing number of coronavirus cases in nursing homes: “[It] speaks to … how difficult infection protection and control is,” she said, adding that nursing…
Q&A with Medicine’s Mark Cameron: Lessons learned from SARS
Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, was a part of the rapid-response research team during the severe acute…