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Molecular ‘brake’ in brain development could hold key to treating multiple sclerosis
Discovery led by Institute for Glial Sciences at Case Western Reserve University suggests new path to regenerative therapies for MS
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CWRU School of Medicine’s Akua Abrah earns Fulbright award to combat a common cause of infant mortality in Ghana
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October 08, 2020
Case Western Reserve team working toward first augmented-reality heart catheterization, ablation while patient is inside an MRI
Case Western Reserve University scientists are working toward performing heart catheterization and cardiac ablation with a micro robotic device, controlled by a doctor wea...
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October 08, 2020
CWRU students are invited to attend "Public Health @CWRU," an MPH and public health minor information session, Friday, Oct. 9, from 1 to 2 p.m. via Zoom. The information session will feature guest speakers Daniel Tisch, director of the Master of Public Health Program, and Scott Frank, director of Pu...
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October 05, 2020
One of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one of every 70 will die from overdoses
A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine calculates the lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States.
The lifetime ris...
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October 05, 2020
One of every 100 American children will die from firearms if current death rates continue; one of every 70 will die from overdoses
A new study published in The American Journal of Medicine calculates the lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States.
The lifetime ris...
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October 02, 2020
The School of Medicine and Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host the fifth webinar in the Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis series Wednesday, Oct. 7, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EST. The theme of this webinar will be “Epidemics of Inequities: COVID-19 and the Opioid Crisis.”
The C...
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September 30, 2020
Outlet: Cincinnati Enquirer...
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September 30, 2020
Ita Rebecca Kaiserman-Abramof, professor emerita of anatomy, passed away earlier this month. Kaiserman-Abramof had a long career at Case Western Reserve University, teaching from 1971 to 2015.
Prior to arriving at CWRU, Kaiserman-Abramof graduated from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazi...
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September 29, 2020
Last week, the School of Medicine held a series of four live, virtual health care forums and a student forum as a run-up to this week’s presidential debate at our Health Education Campus. Attendance was good for the live forums, the discussions were lively, and those who attended asked the moderator...
September 29, 2020
Outlet: Knowable...
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September 29, 2020
The CWRU School of Law will host a webinar titled “Universal Immunization Against COVID: What Law and Society Can Do” via Zoom Thursday, Oct. 1, at noon. The webinar will feature:
Michael Lederman, professor of medicine at CWRU School of Medicine; Maxwell J. Mehlman, director of the Law-Medicine C...