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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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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…
April 17, 2019
Outlet: The New York Times
April 17, 2019
Study describes molecular language bacteria use to control host genes and development Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts; they can also tell the genes in their mammalian hosts what to do. A study published recently in Cell describes a form of…
April 17, 2019
Kathy Magliato (MED ’90) is one of fewer than a dozen female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—surgeons who perform heart transplants. Magliato will present a TED-style talk discussing the leadership principles she has learned in the…
April 15, 2019
Outlet: Cleveland.com