Health + Wellness
July 04, 2012
When a healthy boy was infected with antibiotic-resistant bacterium, the infection was traced to his mother’s nurse’s bag, which was left in the family’s car after her home health care visit to a patient with the same infection. Although the boy’s infection and the patient’s infection were never…
June 26, 2012
CLEVELAND - Following a national search, Cliff A. Megerian, MD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center. Dr. Megerian, currently Vice-Chair of the…
June 21, 2012
CLEVELAND - The opportunity to find common ground in health research between academia and community organizations is vast. Unwavering in its vision to work for the collective good, a new pilot program at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine aims to bolster these collaborations by…
June 20, 2012
CLEVELAND - ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine announces the appointment of the inaugural holder of The Richard B. Fratianne Professorship in Surgery – Christopher P. Brandt, MD of The MetroHealth System. The new professorship is named in honor of Dr. Fratianne, the founder of the…
June 18, 2012
Health experts agree that reducing the stigma associated with adolescent mental illness is an essential step toward increasing the number of teenagers who seek the help they need. But, say researchers at Case Western Reserve in the Journal of Nursing Measurement, the relative dearth of data…
June 13, 2012
A team of researchers, led by Goutham Narla at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine in collaboration with scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, have discovered a previously unrecognized signaling network disrupted in lung cancer that can be turned back on by a…
June 08, 2012
Women, keep those toothbrushes and dental floss handy. A comprehensive review of women’s health studies by Charlene Krejci, associate clinical professor at the ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Dental Medicine, has shown a link between women’s health issues and gum disease. Across the…
June 04, 2012
CLEVELAND - Through the Medicaid Technical Assistance and Policy Program (MEDTAPP) Healthcare Access Initiative (HAI), ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine has secured $6.4 million in federal funds through Ohio Medicaid to support its longstanding involvement in the health of its…
June 01, 2012
Children today may be busier than ever, but ÃÛÌÒAPP psychologists have found their imaginations haven’t suffered—in fact, they appear to have increased. Psychologists Jessica Dillon and Sandra Russ expected the opposite outcome when they analyzed 14 play studies that Russ…
May 30, 2012
Bacteria provide a well-known playground for scientists, and the evolution of these earliest life forms has shed important perspective on potential therapies for some of the most common, deadly diseases. Researchers at ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine have discovered that the gas…