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October is Health Literacy Month It’s estimated that more than 90 million Americans have low health literacy, which means they may not be able to understand health information, make informed choices about their care, navigate our complex health care system or communicate effectively with their hea...

Prepared by Aaron McCorkle, BA – Cleveland Clinic Foundation Unconscious Bias and Health Disparities Implicit social cognition, or unconscious bias, allows individuals to use portions of prior experiences to affect performance, although it may not be introspectively realized (Greenwald & Banaji, 1...

Action of a key lncRNA different in colon cancer versus normal colon tissue Genetics researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), dubbed DACOR1, that has the potential to stymie the growth of tumor cells in the second-most ...

Groundbreaking medical research offers Sanford Markowitz the best of two worlds. He thrives on solving tough scientific puzzles that come with medical research in a top-flight academic center. He also finds immense gratification that his work may someday help someone with serious illness such as col...

An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations—and it comes from Case Western Reserve University. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results. Can...

Updated July 2021 The Center for Reducing Health Disparities was created in 2004 by Case Western Reserve University and the MetroHealth System. The Center helps to direct the Community Research Partnership Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative. The aim of this Core is to faci...

Patented DNA modification technology shows potential to improve chemotherapy as treatment of various cancers Biopharmaceutical startup Red5 Pharmaceuticals LLC has executed an exclusive license from Case Western Reserve University to further develop procedures during chemotherapy using a patented DN...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar series will continue with a multi-level evaluation of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program in Ohio. Siran Koroukian, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, will present the sem...

Bill Schiemann, professor of general medical sciences, has devoted years to studying breast cancer—specifically, metastasis, or cancer’s spread to other parts of the body, which is the cause of more than 90 percent of cancer deaths. Since joining Case Western Reserve University in 2009, Schiemann’s ...

Confronted by a irate patient? What to do? “Challenge yourself to find something about him or her that you can authentically praise” suggests Cancer Center member Dr. Timothy Gilligan, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication at Cleveland Cl...