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The epidemic of obesity is felt in prenatal clinics and delivery rooms around the world with a worrisome trend in high-risk pregnancies that could impact mother and child, according to Patrick M. Catalano, MD, the Dierker-Biscotti Women's Health and Wellness Professor and Director of the Center for ...

In the first major study of its kind, principal investigator Benjamin Gaston, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist and researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, has received a five-year, $13.3 million federal grant to dev...

Red5 Pharmaceuticals LLC, a Case Western Reserve University-based biopharmaceutical startup, was among 35 companies chosen from 200 applicants nationally to be featured as part of the first University Startups Demo Day in Washington, D.C., in September. The event was produced by the National Counci...

The Case Coulter Translational Research Partnership and University Hospitals are offering a collaborative pilot award opportunity to promote the development of new translational research projects between problem owners (clinicians) and solution providers (engineers). The target areas for funding are...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers describe mechanism central to maintaining healthy protein levels, avoiding disease states A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading geneticists has characterized how cells know when to stop translating DNA into proteins, a cr...

Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine bioethicists are calling on organized medicine to end its refusal to provide clinical guidance regarding the care of patients actively seeking assistance in dying. Writing in the November 15, 2016 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (now a...

As many of you know, as of September 1 our school entered into a new agreement with University Hospitals. While we will continue to partner with UH on educational, research, and community service programs, it will no longer be identified as our school’s primary affiliate. In light of the unprecedent...

The Medicine, Society and Culture program of the Department of Bioethics will host the inaugural meeting of the Northeast Ohio Medical and Health Humanities and Social Medicine consortium Thursday, Sept. 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the School of Medicine. Those who would like to participate in the conv...

A record of shifts in the environment and animal diversity and distribution may help scientists predict effects of current climate change Darin Croft, associate professor of anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, will try to start filling a gap in the fossil record of Sou...

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine-led team of international researchers has for the first time identified a fungus as a key factor in the development of Crohn’s disease. The researchers also linked a new bacterium to the previous bacteria associated with Crohn’s. The groundbreakin...