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October is Health Literacy Month It’s estimated that more than 90 million Americans have low health literacy, which means they may not be able to understand health information, make informed choices about their care, navigate our complex health care system or communicate effectively with their hea...

Prepared by Aaron McCorkle, BA – Cleveland Clinic Foundation Unconscious Bias and Health Disparities Implicit social cognition, or unconscious bias, allows individuals to use portions of prior experiences to affect performance, although it may not be introspectively realized (Greenwald & Banaji, 1...

Groundbreaking medical research offers Sanford Markowitz the best of two worlds. He thrives on solving tough scientific puzzles that come with medical research in a top-flight academic center. He also finds immense gratification that his work may someday help someone with serious illness such as col...

An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations—and it comes from ���ϳԹ���. Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results. Can...

Updated July 2021 The Center for Reducing Health Disparities was created in 2004 by ���ϳԹ��� and the MetroHealth System. The Center helps to direct the Community Research Partnership Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative. The aim of this Core is to faci...

Confronted by a irate patient? What to do? “Challenge yourself to find something about him or her that you can authentically praise” suggests Cancer Center member Dr. Timothy Gilligan, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication at Cleveland Cl...

Guest Author: Ruth Keri, PhD This past month, Gary Gilliland, Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, penned a commentary for the Association of American Cancer Institutes, emphasizing the need for women and other underrepresented groups in science and describing his goals for gende...

From: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Think Cultural Health (TCH) Think Cultural Health (TCH), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, is dedicated to advancing health equity at every point of contact. With growing concerns about healt...

���ϳԹ��� scientists collaborate with China’s Lanzhou University investigators in exploring the dual-compound strategy Li Li The concept was simple: If two compounds each individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, surely it’s worth trying the two together to see if even great...

Prepared by Jan Hanson, MPH – Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Valerie Vinson, M.Ed, LSW – University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center Community Outreach Program What is unconscious bias? Unconscious bias, also known as implicit bias or implicit social cognition, is the concept that many of ou...