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Michael W. Konstan, MD, Appointed Chairman of Pediatrics at UH Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine
CLEVELAND - Michael W. Konstan, MD, has been appointed Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine. Dr. Konstan, a pioneer in the field of cystic fibrosis, has been ...
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Global TB Expert Receives Prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award
CLEVELAND - Anna Maria Mandalakas, MD, MSEpi, associate professor of Pediatrics, Global Health and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a 2010 U.S. Fulbright Scholarship....
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine Receives Nearly $8M in Federal Funding to Help Providers Enable Adoption of Electronic Health Records in Ohio
CLEVELAND - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) School of Medicine has received $7,942,500 in federal stimulus funds from the Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP), the state designated entity for health information exchange development. The funding will position ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine as a...
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine Team Discovers "Smart" Insulin Protein Molecule That Could Revolutionize Diabetes Care
CLEVELAND - For millions of Americans with Type-2 diabetes and inject insulin to control diabetes (with onset typically in adulthood) the associated risk of cancer is of increasing concern. Studies have demonstrated that obesity and excess insulin-whether naturally produced by the body or injected i...
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø First to Prove Validated Instrument to Measure aa-Related Helping
CLEVELAND—Maria Pagano, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, has established an empirical model to quantify and gauge an alcohol addicts' level of engagement in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)-related helping (AAH). The instrument validity study, "R...
Sleep Apnea Tied to Increased Risk of Stroke
Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of stroke in middle-aged and older adults, especially men, according to new results from a landmark study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. Overall, sleep apnea more th...
Genetic Factor Shown to Regulate Both Heart Failure and Aneurysm Disease
CLEVELAND—ase Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have identified a major indicator of two deadly diseases of the heart and blood vessels: heart failure and aortic aneurysm. The absence of the Kruppel-like Factor 15 (KLF15), when combined with stress, leads to both heart failur...
Duffy-negative Blood Types No Longer Protected From P. Vivax Malaria
CLEVELAND - In a paradigm changing discovery, Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax)malaria has been identified in a population historically thought to be resistant to the disease, those who do not express the Duffy blood group protein on their red blood cells, according to researchers from Case Western Reserv...
Newer Cornea Transplant Surgery Shows Short- and Long-term Promise
CLEVELAND - One year post-surgery, patients who underwent Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) experienced greater cell loss overall compared to those who underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), according to a new analysis of data collected from the Cornea Donor Study (C...
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Receives $2.8M to Further Breast Cancer Research
CLEVELAND - ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine has been awarded six Department of Defense (DOD) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) grants for innovative medical research. The grants, totaling nearly $2.8 million, will advance research in the field of breast ca...