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CWRU Athletes in Medicine: The power of peer mentorship
Balancing the demands of athletics with the rigorous path toward a career in medicine is a uniquely challenging—and rewarding—experience. At Case Western Reserve University, a new student-led mentorship initiative is working to make that journey more supportive and sustainable for pre-med student…
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Research paper from CWRU School of Medicine awarded 2025 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Recent News
May 03, 2019
When Lin Mei decided to go into medicine, he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Both had careers in the field: his mother in cardiology and his father in public health. But after medical school in China and a one-year internship that exposed him to various specialties in medicine, he felt…
April 30, 2019
The 16th annual family-friendly “The Race” will take place this Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, at Legacy Village in Lyndhurst. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the 5K starts at 8:30 a.m., followed by the 1-mile run at 9:30 a.m. The goal of “The Race” is to empower children and their families…
April 30, 2019
$65.9 million federal grant supports multifaceted initiative to cut overdoses by 40% in three years; involves experts from six universities With a $65.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH)
grant to address Ohio’s opioid epidemic, a consortium of academic, state and
community…
April 23, 2019
Sandra W. Jacobson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral
neurosciences at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, will give two
lectures on campus this week. For pediatric grand rounds, Jacobson will give a presentation Thursday, April 25, from 8 to 9 a.m. in the University Hospitals…
April 22, 2019
A beautiful spring day welcomed almost 600 guests for the ribbon cutting ceremony that marked the official opening of the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion at the Health Education Campus. Entering the building as the sun streamed through the skylight into the courtyard, one could sense the electric…
April 19, 2019
Scott Williams, a professor of population and quantitative health sciences and genetics and genome sciences, co-wrote an article titled “The Missing Diversity in Human Genetic Studies” for Cell, a medical research journal. Williams argued that the lack of diversity limits the ability to make…
April 19, 2019
Researchers from the
Department of Dermatology published an article on the financial burden of
chronic cutaneous ulcers, which are associated with a wide variety of medical
conditions, in the United States. The article, titled “Incremental Health Care
Expenditure of Chronic Cutaneous Ulcers in the…
April 19, 2019
Researchers from Case
Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center recently
published an article on a potential novel treatment for stress urinary
incontinence (SUI), a condition that is estimated to affect 40 percent of
childbearing women. The article, titled…
April 17, 2019
The brain is more resilient than previously thought. In a groundbreaking experiment published in this week’s issue of Nature, neuroscientists created an artificial circulation system that successfully restored some functions and structures in donated pig brains—up to four hours after the pigs were…