Health + Wellness
September 16, 2010
CLEVELAND - Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor and researcher in the department of biochemistry at the ϳԹ School of Medicine, has identified new anti-pathogenic drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) har...
August 13, 2010
CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was reported in the 1920s. The landmark finding from the...
July 30, 2010
CLEVELAND - Jonathan Stamler, MD, Director of the Institute for Transformative Molecular Medicine and the Robert S. and Sylvia K. Reitman Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Innovation at the ϳԹ and University Hospitals Harrington-McLaughlin Heart & V...
July 19, 2010
CLEVELAND - Cynthia Owusu, MD, associate professor at ϳԹ and geriatric-oncologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, the School’s primary affiliate, has received nearly $500,000 from Susan G. Komen For the Cure to fund a novel three-year study aimed at improvin...
July 14, 2010
CLEVELAND - Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men with an estimated 192,280 new cases diagnosed in the US in 2009 (Jemal 2009). Diet is considered one of the most important controllable risk factors for inflammation and prostate diseases including benign prostat...
July 13, 2010
CLEVELAND - Using chemical labeling and mass spectrometry-based techniques, Mark Chance, PhD, director of the ϳԹ School of Medicine Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics and professor of physiology and biophysics; Sayan Gupta, PhD, instructor at the Case Center for Pr...
June 25, 2010
CLEVELAND - Athersys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHX) and its collaborators, including the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (CSCRM) and ϳԹ (ϳԹ), announced today that they have been awarded $1 million through the Ohio Third Frontier Biomedical Program to support resea...
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June 24, 2010
CLEVELAND - ϳԹ's School of Medicine and Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing have received a $640,000 grant from the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to fund the new Interprofessional Learning Exchange and Development (I-LEAD) Program. The project will involve several exper...
June 22, 2010
CLEVELAND - A study by investigators at ϳԹ School of Medicine published in this week’s issue of JAMA found that public hospital comparison data reported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services does not accurately correlate with a patient’s risk for surgical p...
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June 15, 2010
CLEVELAND — A team of researchers led by Elliott Dasenbrook, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at ϳԹ School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s Rainbow Babies & Childr...