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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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December 07, 2015
Treatment one day after injury is effective in preventing cascade of immune responses that often lead to loss of bodily functions Jerry Silver When a blunt-force blow injures the spinal cord, the body’s immune system can be both friend and foe. Sensing the injury, the immune system dispatches an…
December 02, 2015
Case Western Reserve University is mourning the sudden death last week of fourth-year medical student Hilary M. Rosenheim, a Wisconsin native who came to Cleveland to pursue her dream of becoming an emergency room physician or family medicine practitioner. She was 26. Rosenheim, who married…
November 30, 2015
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University will present the 31st annual Doc Opera variety show Friday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. at John Hay High School (2075 Stokes Blvd.). With this year’s theme of “Thoracic Park,”…
November 23, 2015
When a blunt-force blow injures the spinal cord, the body’s immune system can be both friend and foe. Sensing the injury, the immune system dispatches an inflammatory response composed of specialized cells called macrophages to dispose of dead tissue. However, together with the debris and blood…
November 12, 2015
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute research funding award goes to investigating a more effective approach to get patients to stop smoking Susan Flocke A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine team received $2 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute…
November 10, 2015
Earns American Heart Association’s prestigious 2015 Clinical Research Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cardiovascular Science Jackson T. Wright Jr. When Jackson T. Wright Jr. began practicing medicine in the 1980’s, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in…
November 09, 2015
When Jackson T. Wright Jr. MD, PhD, began practicing medicine in the 1980’s, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in African Americans compared to Caucasians. But what was not known was the dramatic difference in effective prevention and treatment strategies between…
November 06, 2015
Hearing is made possible when hair bundles protruding from the tops of hair cells capture the energy of sound waves, converting them into electrical signals that stimulate the auditory nerve to the brain. These hair bundles are made up of individual hair-like projections, or stereocilia, which sway…
November 06, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University team won first prize and $150,000 in the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare for their project, Hemechip. Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, led the team. The Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare is a…
October 22, 2015
Multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve scientists uses brief exposure to therapy to find biomarker predictive of response to therapy A multicenter team led by Case Western Reserve has demonstrated that brief exposure to a targeted therapy can tell doctors which HER2-negative patients will…