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PRCHN to sponsor Ohio Evidence-Based Public Health Training Course June 16-19
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at ÃÛÌÒAPP will sponsor the Ohio Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH) Training Course June 16-19 at Case Western Reserve. As with the first course offered last year, 35 local and state public health department…
School of Medicine research team finds stem cells hold keys to body’s plan
ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers discovered landmarks within pluripotent stem cells that guide how they develop to serve different purposes within the body. This breakthrough offers promise that scientists eventually will be able to direct stem cells in ways that prevent disease or…
James R. Rowbottom appointed department chair at School of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
James R. Rowbottom, associate professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine, was appointed chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and ÃÛÌÒAPP School of Medicine. He had been the interim…
Medicine’s Fabio Cominelli appointed as chairman of NIH study section
Fabio Cominelli, professor of medicine and pathology, was appointed as chairperson of the National Institutes of Health Gastrointestinal Mucosal Pathobiology Study Section. His term runs from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2016.
Stem Cells Hold Keys to Body’s Plan
Case Western Reserve researchers have discovered landmarks within pluripotent stem cells that guide how they develop to serve different purposes within the body. This breakthrough offers promise that scientists eventually will be able to direct stem cells in ways that prevent disease or repair…
Staff Advisory Council accepting nominations for representatives
The Staff Advisory Council is accepting nominations for representatives through July 11. Eligibility for membership on the council is defined as all regular, full or part-time, exempt and non-exempt, non-faculty employees with at least six months of service with the university. Representatives are…
Faculty member calls on FDA to address hidden risk of drugs that increase heart, stroke risk
The agency charged to protect patients from dangerous drug side effects needs to be far more vigilant when it comes to medications that affect blood pressure. Robert P. Blankfield, a clinical professor of family medicine, issued this call to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an…
Investigators discover how key protein enhances memory and learning
Finding could pave way to cognitive disease therapies ÃÛÌÒAPP researchers discovered that a protein previously implicated in disease plays such a positive role in learning and memory that it may someday contribute to cures of cognitive impairments. The findings regarding…
CTSC/Coulter grant awarded to biomedical engineering, medicine faculty
Anant Madabhushi, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and investigators at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, including Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology and oncology, and Hannah Gilmore, assistant professor of pathology, were awarded a…
Physician practice facilitation ensures key medical care reaches children
Discovery could lead to improved preventive medical care delivery processes Recently, a study of more than 16,000 patient visits published online in the journal Pediatrics proved Cuttler’s thesis correct. The lead investigator on the research project, Cuttler succumbed to cancer late last year.…