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Katherine Dobbs, MD Across the world, over 200 million cases of malaria and nearly 500,000 deaths from the disease occur annually—more than 90 percent of which happen in Africa. Children in Africa can be diagnosed with malaria two or three times a year, a rate that decreases as they becom...

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis describes how obesity has shifted certain cancers to younger age groups, and intensified...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been named the #1 medical school in Ohio, according to the annual ranking of graduate schools released today by U.S. News & World Report. The school was also ranked 25thof all research-oriented medical schools nationally. “This recognition is ...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is ranked #25 of all research-oriented medical schools in the nation and #1 in Ohio, according to the annual ranking of graduate schools released today by U.S. News & World Report. “This recognition is testimony to the outstanding quality of our fa...

Children with mild to moderate asthma do not benefit from a common practice of increasing their inhaled steroids at the first signs of an asthma exacerbation, according to clinical trial results published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers found short-term increases in inhaled stero...

At exactly noon on Friday, March 16, medical students nationwide–including those from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU–learned which hospitals accepted them as resident physicians for the next three to seven years. The Nation...

A researcher examines samples in the Digestive Health Research Institute at CWRU School of Medicine. In a study that has implications for humans with inflammatory diseases, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have found that, given over a six...

Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects males—live into their 30s and beyond, raising challenges in such areas as education, vocation, levels of independence, personal relationships, emotional ...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute researchers Muhammad Panhwar, MD, and Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD, recently concluded a study of more than 22 million patients that suggests a strong connection between Inflammatory Bowel Dis...

Richard Martin, MD Richard Martin, MD, professor of pediatrics, reproductive biology, and physiology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and director of neonatal research programs and Drusinsky-Fanaroff Chair in Neonatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, has bee...