School of Medicine

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

In mammalian genome, enhancers are sequences that are often far away from their target genes. They play a key role in transcription regulation through long-range DNA loops. It is now widely accepted that genetic variants within enhancers may cause gene mis-regulation and human diseases. However, an…

Mark Hans, DDS, MSD, and CWRU Professor and Chair of the Orthodontics Department, delivered the 2023 John Valentine Mershon Award Lecture at the AAO 2023 Annual Session in Chicago.  The presentation, Two Score and Two Years-Lessons Learned, drew upon 42 years of clinical experience and more than…