Laughing is good for you—here’s why
For thousands of years, versions of the saying “laughter is the best medicine” have emerged in religious, scientific...
Health & Wellness
Local collaborative awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to study effectiveness of its healthy foods program for low-income pregnant women
Food insecurity—the lack of steady access to nutritionally adequate food—during pregnancy is linked to premature births and poorer...
New study finds unintentional weight loss often goes unrecognized by primary care physicians
University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University weight researchers seek to develop steps for primary care doctors to...
CWRU and UH researchers secure $6.2 million from NIH to investigate using artificial intelligence to predict cardiovascular disease
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) have secured $6.2 million from...
Biomedical engineer explores new use for synthetic platelets: treating inherited bleeding disorders
Even as biomedical engineer Anirban Sen Gupta refines artificial platelets to stem traumatic bleeding, he and his colleagues...
Improving gene therapy with tiny bubbles
With Moderna Inc. global fellowship award, CWRU School of Medicine researchers hope to develop process that overcomes challenge...
CWRU School of Nursing awarded $2.56M grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation for age-friendly care program in MinuteClinic at CVS locations
Since late 2018, researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and MinuteClinic at...
Q&A with a researcher who studies rare diseases
In 2012, physician-scientist and medical geneticist Atul Chopra met two patients with an extremely rare disease: marfanoid progeroid...
New study reveals ketamine could be effective treatment for cocaine-use disorders
Researchers combine AI, clinical testing and computer analysis of vast amounts of biomedical knowledge and electronic health records ...
Case Western Reserve University completes exclusive license agreement with Atlanta-based RORA Biologics Inc. for cancer and HIV therapy technologies
Case Western Reserve University has completed an exclusive license agreement with Atlanta-based RORA Biologics Inc. (RORA-Bio) for intellectual property to...