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“Minorities in Medicine”
In honor of Black History Month, the Daniel-Hale Williams Pre Medical Society will host Dee Banks, chief of infectious diseases at UPMC Horizon. Banks will talk about her experience as a minority in the field of medicine. This event, titled “Minorities in Medicine,” will be held Wednesday, Feb.…
Imaging is Us
As part of our 175th anniversary celebration, we are focusing on a different aspect of our history. This month it’s imaging - and our record goes back more than a century. In 1905 Walter C. Hill, MD, was appointed the first radiologist at Lakeside Hospital, about when the institution first…
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Researchers reverse symptoms in neurologic disease model
Study provides hope for Rett syndrome patients and others across autism spectrum It is a parent’s nightmare: A child is born apparently healthy, then stops meeting developmental milestones at one year old. Her verbal and motor skills vanish, and irregular breathing, seizures, and a host of other…
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Medicine’s Kavita Arora explores a physician’s duty to warn in age of social media
Kavita Arora, an assistant professor of reproductive biology and bioethics for the School of Medicine, co-wrote a piece for STAT titled “An ultrasound on Instagram suggested the baby could be in danger. Does a physician have a duty to warn?” Arora and her co-author discussed the recent situation…
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Case Western Reserve and Sangamo Therapeutics announce $11 million NIH grant for study of gene-edited T cells for the viral eradication of HIV
Case Western Reserve University and Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. recently announced the award of an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a planned study of gene-edited T cells designed to eradicate persistent HIV infection in patients receiving anti-retroviral therapy, a…
Volatility
We’ve been experiencing a lot of volatility this last year. The stock market has shown us wild gyrations this last month – one day your 401k was beckoning you toward retirement, the next to hunker down and earn some more money! The temperature, after stubbornly sitting in the teens, suddenly began…
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William Gelfand Lecture: Lee Ponsky
The Phi Delta Epsilon International Medical Fraternity will host its second annual William Gelfand Lecture featuring guest speaker Lee Ponsky, founder of MedWish International and professor of urology. The event will be held Thursday, March 1, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Medical Library…
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Researchers inhibit cancer metastases via novel steps
Blocking action of gene enhancers halts spread of tumor cells In one of the first successes of its kind, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spreading of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. In doing so,…
Investigators Highlight Potential of Exercise in Addressing Substance Abuse in Teens
Exercise has numerous, well-documented health benefits. Could it also play a role in preventing and reducing substance misuse and abuse in adolescents? This is the intriguing question that a team of investigators from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic seeks to…
Researchers Inhibit Cancer Metastases via Novel Steps
In one of the first successes of its kind, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and six other institutions have inhibited the spreading of cancer cells from one part of the body to another. In doing so, they relied on a new model of how cancer metastasizes that…