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New Case Western Reserve University study suggests it just might Stress has been linked to all sorts of serious health issues, from insomnia to high blood pressure, obesity and even heart disease. But it’s generally acknowledged that some stress can also be helpful, like when someone’s chasing a…

A pathway for recent under represented persons (URP) PhD graduates to faculty positions Dean Gerson has announced the launch of the Dean’s Scholars Program, an innovative effort to attract recent PhD graduates to accelerate their career trajectories as well as expand the diversity of the Case…

Study will allow researchers to develop personalized precision medicine for treatment of IBD in this underrepresented minority patient population Gay men are more than twice as likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than heterosexual men when both populations engage in high-risk sexual…

When Jonathan Haines was learning about genetics in his high school biology class, he thought it was going to be pretty straightforward—you get one copy of genes from mom, one copy from dad and that’s it. “By the time I realized it was really complex, I was already hooked,” said Haines, the Mary…

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) at Case Western Reserve University will receive up to $20 million in funding as part of a grant renewal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand how and why prion diseases—degenerative brain…

Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a control group—of developing Alzheimer’s disease within a year, according to a study of more than 6 million patients 65 and older. In a study published today in the Journal of…

  At the tenth annual School of Medicine “Seeds of Discovery” White Coat Ceremony, held on Friday, Aug. 26, Vice Dean for Graduate Education, Marvin Nieman, PhD welcomed 124 incoming students beginning their biomedical research training as doctoral students. Dean of the School of Medicine, Stan…

Researchers say pathway is linked to tumor development Research led by Case Western Reserve University has identified a promising path to developing therapies to treat esophageal tumors—a form of cancer that not only is among the most deadly, but also has been occurring at increasing rates over…

Novel role for nitric oxide in treatment of asthma and other obstructive airway diseases detailed by team at University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University Many therapeutics for asthma and other obstructive lung diseases target the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR), a G protein-coupled…

With a long history and background in recruitment and student affairs, Pierra Heard knew that it was a perfect fit when she joined Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Enrollment Management & Strategic Initiatives office in April. As the assistant director of enrollment management,…