News Releases

CLEVELAND - The Departments of Pharmacology and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have been awarded a $10.1 million grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI) to research and develop new treatments for diseases of the retina, a leading cause of ...

CLEVELAND - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty members are reaping the rewards of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the form of grants and contracts. The funding totals more than $6.4 million for four different research endeavors. Tackling Mycobacteriu...

CLEVELAND - A new finding out in the December 1st issue of Genes & Development offers insight into a new treatment avenue for two painful inflammatory diseases: Crohn’s Disease and sarcoidosis. While the loss of NOD2, the gene studied in the provoking article, increases the risk of developing Crohn’...

CLEVELAND - Cleveland’s childhood overweight and obesity rate is approximately 40 percent and show no sign of plateauing. A team of local researchers has set out to tackle the problem using a comprehensive and pioneering approach, which includes child and family behavioral interventions and partners...

CLEVELAND - Texting while driving can be a deadly combination for anyone. Yet, new data released today reveal that the dangers of excessive texting among teens are not limited to the road. Hyper-texting and hyper-networking are now giving rise to a new health risk category for this age group. Scott...

CLEVELAND – October 28, 2010 – Medical researchers say that the lack of clinical research volunteers is reaching crisis proportions and is rapidly becoming a major healthcare issue. In an effort to increase the health literacy in the Cleveland community, Case Western Reserve University, through the ...

CLEVELAND - Fred C. Rothstein, MD, President, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, announce the appointment of James Levine, MD, PhD, as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Medicine. ...

CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor and researcher in the department of biochemistry at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has identified new anti-pathogenic drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) har...

CLEVELAND - One third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which leads to tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death world-wide. A new discovery, led by a team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, offers hope for new approac...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was reported in the 1920s. The landmark finding from the...