pediatrics

A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University recently wrote a piece, published in the journal Pediatrics, about the racial disparities in breastfeeding. Their piece was titled “Caring for American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents.” The research team consisted of Suet Ka...

In a study published in Nature Research’s journal Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University—in collaboration with researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil—described the effects of the drug diazepam on a mouse designed to mimic the features of Do...

Aparna Bole, associate professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, wrote an op-ed for cleveland.com calling for elected officials in Ohio to push for a renewable-energy economy. Bole collaborated with Ariunaa Bayanjargal, MD/PhD student at The Ohio State University, and William Hardie, a ped...

Cancer researchers Alex Huang, Reshmi Parameswaran and Yamilet Huerta have been awarded $315,000 in grants from the St. Baldrick's Foundation to conduct research of new immunotherapy treatments for pediatric cancers. Alex Huang Huang, professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University Scho...

For the past 15 years, Research ShowCASE has brought the Case Western Reserve University community together to celebrate remarkable inventions, solutions and discoveries of research. In recent years at this event, the university has recognized outstanding faculty contributions with the Faculty Disti...

Young adults often "forgotten individuals" in cancer research ideastream: Stanton L. Gerson, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Asa and Patricia Shiverick–Jane Shiverick (Tripp) Professor of Hematological Oncology, and John Letterio, professor of pediatrics, discussed the natu...

Aparna Bole and Kristie Ross, associate professors of pediatrics, penned a piece arguing against House Bill 6, which they argue would largely repeal Ohio’s Renewable Portfolio Standard and Energy Efficiency Resource Standard and have negative health consequences for children. In the piece, Bole and...

Richard Martin, 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 been selected as the recipient of the ...

Researchers receive $9M NIH grant to develop infrared technology for understanding, managing the peripheral nervous system’s role in many illnesses Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and the University of Pittsburgh received a four-year, $9 mil...

Revised guidelines spotlight need for improving patient transitions to adulthood Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)—one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects males—live into their 30s and beyond, raising challenges in such a...