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Dynamic COVID-19 dashboard developed by School of Medicine team
As COVID-19 continues to spread, concerns about where and when it is safe to leave home may cause fear, frustration and fatigue. Part of that frustration may come from not having a quick, reliable source for accurate, up-to-date information on virus outbreaks. That need inspired a team of two…
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Barnholtz-Sloan elected Representative, Society for Neuro-Oncology Board of Directors
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD as she was recently elected as a representative to the board of the Society for Neuro-Oncology. Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan is the Sally S. Morley Designated Professor in Brain…
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Medicine’s Susan Hatters-Friedman receives 2020 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award
Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, chief of the Forensic Psychiatry program at University Hospitals and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry’s (GAP) Committee on Psychiatry & Law, received the 2020…
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Performing robotic medical procedures 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 wearing a mixed-reality headset—all while the patient is inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. Cardiac ablation is…
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Performing robotic medical procedures inside an MRI
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…
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Information session: Public health @CWRU
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…
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New study calculates lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States
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…
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New study calculates lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States
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…
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Racial Disparity, Social Justice and the Opioid Crisis—“Health Equity and COVID-19: Racism, Not Race”
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…