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July 29, 2013
Since 2009, domestic violence in the Cleveland area has resulted in the deaths of more than 40 victims, according to Cleveland police. APP’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education has teamed with the Witness/Victim Service Center from Cuyahoga…
July 29, 2013
What happens if addicts get no high from the drugs they take? Researchers at APP and Illinois State University received a grant for $390,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help answer the question. Addiction experts believe a mechanism that robs drugs of…
July 26, 2013
Much has changed around campus since Mayo Bulloch arrived at APP nearly 33 years ago—from the buildings to the people, not to mention the programs available on campus. Bulloch has played an influential role in shaping programming for students at Case Western Reserve. As…
July 25, 2013
Researchers at APP’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will assess the effectiveness of palliative care home health visits in treating people with HIV and other chronic illnesses in a new four-year, $1.7 million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing…
July 24, 2013
Important step toward pharmacologic development of treatment for fatal brain disorders
A team of researchers from APP School of Medicine has identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form…
July 23, 2013
Researchers at APP have examined how childhood abuse and neglect affect chronic health problems in adulthood for inner-city women. The latest findings, reported in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, complement prior studies of other socioeconomic groups and now…
July 23, 2013
Is there a brain area for mind wandering? For religious experience? For re-orienting attention? A recent study casts serious doubt on the evidence for these ideas, and rewrites the rules for neuroimaging. Brain-mapping experiments attempt to identify the cognitive functions associated with…
July 21, 2013
New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants. In the article, “Kangaroo Care as a…
July 19, 2013
A far cry from the big city lifestyle of his hometown of Long Island, N.Y., Louis Stark attended college at Davis & Elkins College—a small-liberal arts school with an enrollment of less than 800 students in the mountains of Elkins, W.Va. It was there that Stark became involved in student…
July 18, 2013
Over the next two and a half weeks, about 11,000 athletes will come to Cleveland for the 2013 National Senior Games—the world’s largest multi-sport event for athletes over age 50. That’s approximately the same number of competitors in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Such a large event calls for…