Study finds a pet’s love helps women cope with HIV/AIDS
A spoonful of medicine goes down a lot easier if there is a dog or cat around. Having...
Health & Wellness
Common oral bacteria makes body vulnerable to illness
A common oral bacteria, Fusobacterium nucleatum, acts like a key that opens a door in human blood vessels...
Lose the fat and improve the gums, CWRU dental researchers find
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers found the human body is better at fighting gum...
School of Medicine awarded $6.75 million to study IBD
Investigators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine received a $6.75 million Program Project Grant from the...
Researchers find mutation that protects against common type of malaria
A mutation on the surface of human red blood cells provides protection against malaria caused by the parasite...
Early sign of Alzheimer’s reversed in lab
One of the earliest known impairments caused by Alzheimer’s disease—loss of sense of smell—can be restored by removing...
School of Medicine to study link between sleep apnea, irregular heart rate
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $3.8 million grant from the National Heart, Lung,...
Helping others helps teens stay on the road to addiction recovery, CWRU study says
A new study of teens undergoing substance abuse treatment finds helping others helps the adolescent helper by reducing...
Mother Nature’s oral antibiotics research gets $2.25 million help from NIH
Research from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine to study an isolated agent from common oral...
Blame backbone fractures on evolution, not osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to...