School of Medicine

Kelvin Smith Library celebrated National Library Week 2023 by hosting a Six Word Story Contest with the theme, "There's More to the Story..." Over 100 CWRU students, staff, and faculty submitted their stories through an online form and in-person at KSL. A panel of four library literature enthusiasts...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the probability of missed appointments in a busy clinic—followed up with personal outreach to at-risk patients—improved “show rates” for patients, especially those who were Black, according to a new study led by researchers at Case Western Reserve Univer...

For thousands of years, versions of the saying “laughter is the best medicine” have emerged in religious, scientific and popular literature—and for good reason. Laughter helps our neurological, physical, emotional, cognitive and social health and well-being in multiple ways. To find out why laughte...

Voting is a social determinant of health that can help advance Clevelanders’ well-beingcleveland.com: Zain Khawaja, a second-year student at the School of Medicine, noted that voting was recently recognized as a social determinant of health by the American Medical Association, the country’s largest ...

Food insecurity—the lack of steady access to nutritionally adequate food—during pregnancy is linked to premature births and poorer health for low-income mothers and their babies, contributing to staggering rates of infant mortality in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. To address this critical need, a ...

University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University weight researchers seek to develop steps for primary care doctors to recognize this potentially serious condition Unintentional weight loss (UWL) is a common and serious problem, and according to several studies, it could be a sign—sometimes ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to learn more about the Master of Science in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics program during an information session Wednesday, May 3, from 6 to 7 p.m. via Zoom. This MS degree program combines both basic biology and biochemistry...

Do you think you could summarize an 80,000-word dissertation in just 300 words? That’s the premise of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT™) competition, an event developed by the University of Queensland that’s now held at more than 900 institutions around the world, including Case Western Reserve Univers...

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) have secured $6.2 million from two grants awarded in the same month from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to predict cardiovascular disease through new artificial intelligence (AI) approach...

School of Medicine students Elliot Crooks, Sean Li and Pratheek Makineni earned third place in an international, neurosurgery-focused pitch competition (mission:brain Hackathon) hosted by Harvard Medical School. The competition involved more than 200 participants from over 50 countries. The Case We...