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Cleveland research team identifies key driver of age-related cognitive decline
Researchers from University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA published preclinical results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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May 17, 2019
Aparna Bole and Kristie Ross, associate professors of
pediatrics, penned a piece arguing against House Bill 6, which they argue would
largely repeal Ohio’s Renewable Portfolio Standard and Energy Efficiency
Resource Standard and have negative health consequences for children. In the piece, Bole…
May 16, 2019
The business world’s loss has been a significant gain for students at Case Western Reserve University and the School of Medicine. Monica Gerrek, assistant professor of bioethics, had taken a philosophy course as an undergraduate but opted for the ostensibly safer choice of pursuing a business…
May 15, 2019
Outlet: Reuters Health
May 14, 2019
Brian Cobb recalled the transforming effects
of his first mentor. “When I was a sophomore at the University of
Oklahoma (OU), I took a class in organic chemistry with Dr. Roland Lehr,” he
said. “I went to his office with a question, and after answering it, he asked
me my plans for a career. I…
May 10, 2019
Erika Trapl, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) and assistant professor in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, shared some results of the PRCHN's food melt research as a guest writer on Boston University's Public…
May 03, 2019
Outlet: News 5 Cleveland
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…