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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…

Law journal article raises the strategy’s legal, ethical implications To keep rising health care costs in check, many health insurers have adopted a strategy known as “step therapy,” a policy requiring patients to try cheaper drugs first—and find them to be ineffective—before approving pricier…

High-powered microscope shows receptor at rest, with focus on drug development A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have used Nobel Prize-winning microscope technology to see full-length serotonin receptors for the first time. The tiny…

A Case Western Reserve University professor is joining an interdisciplinary group of 19 experts in academia from around the country speaking out against gun violence. Daniel J. Flannery, a professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, is part of a national…

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…

The third-year law student with “unparalleled character” at Case Western Reserve University rose to national prominence through her work on chronic traumatic encephalopathy Near the end of her first semester in law school, Alison Epperson’s longtime boyfriend, Zac Easter, took his own life after…

Three academic institutions—Case Western Reserve, Mercyhurst and Cleveland State universities—each maintain nationally recognized programs in the science of cybersecurity. Today, they announced plans to share their individual expertise and collectively form the North Coast Cyber Research and…

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…

In a region defined by health care and humanities excellence, the third annual festival joins 25+ cultural institutions for a month of free events in Northeast Ohio—starting March 15 Health—and its absence—has inspired centuries of art and ingenuity. Exploring the unique role of health in human…

Case Western Reserve University symposium on March 2 to explore solutions for a crime growing nationally and in Ohio At this moment, there are more than an estimated 30 million enslaved people around the world. Ohio is indicative of the problem: The state ranks fourth in the number of…