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$3 million federal grant awarded to Hemex Health to develop first point-of-care sickle cell testing device for U.S. market; technology developed by CWRU engineer A private company’s effort to bring its portable point-of-care test for sickle cell disease (SCD) and other inherited blood diseases to…

University’s Center on Trauma and Adversity helping to build nation’s first system of its kind to promote healing, healthy environments Cleveland’s recreation centers offer opportunities from cooking classes to robotics workshops. But Case Western Reserve University researchers found—through…

Case Western Reserve University and UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital (UH Rainbow) were selected by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to receive renewed funding to study newborn health through the Neonatal Research Network…

Case Western Reserve University is launching a new program to capitalize on commercializing innovations arising from the burgeoning field of regenerative medicine. The program, which will begin this fall, is a collaboration between the School of Medicine and School of Law. The curriculum will be…

University will train addiction care providers in evidence-based best practices and provide implementation, evaluation support Ohio had the nation’s fourth-highest rate of unintentional drug-overdose deaths according to most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Irregularities in the body’s genetic coding to make proteins are linked to cancerous tumors. But most genetic material contains elements whose function isn’t clear. Could abnormalities in non-coding material also impact a person’s health, or even be linked to cancers as well? A new study by…

Establishing clear title allows residents stay in, improve their homes, contributing to neighborhood stability on Cleveland’s east side It’s a common problem in inner-city neighborhoods: An elderly parent dies, but the family home was never legally transferred to relatives. The result is one…

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the probability of missed appointments in a busy clinic—followed up with personal outreach to at-risk patients—improved “show rates” for patients, especially those who were Black, according to a new study led by researchers at Case Western Reserve…

Food insecurity—the lack of steady access to nutritionally adequate food—during pregnancy is linked to premature births and poorer health for low-income mothers and their babies, contributing to staggering rates of infant mortality in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. To address this critical need, a…

Even as biomedical engineer Anirban Sen Gupta refines artificial platelets to stem traumatic bleeding, he and his colleagues are seeking new uses for their synthetic solution. The latest application to show promise involves providing synthetic platelets to treat a genetic condition that prevents…