Clinical trials planned for brain tumor ‘GPS’ maps

A GPS map to guide neural navigation devices developed by a Case Western Reserve University cancer researcher has shown 90% accuracy in pinpointing brain tumors and will soon be tested in real time with patients at Cleveland Clinic under a...
20-Dec-2019 10:15 AM EST Add to Favorites

Case Western Reserve social sciences researchers develop new tool to assess exposure to childhood violence, trauma

One in five children in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are either exposed to, or are victims of, violence and trauma, according to a new study from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
18-Dec-2019 11:35 AM EST Add to Favorites

Case Western Reserve researchers to lead Northeast Ohio initiative to prevent, detect and treat lung cancer in underserved communities

With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from Case Western Reserve University will lead a community wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to prevent and detect lung cancer in...
18-Dec-2019 8:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Case Western Reserve University researchers discover critical link to controlling inflammation in Crohn’s disease

Investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discovered that blocking interleukin-1α (IL1α), a protein that controls inflammation in the gut, markedly decreases the severity of intestinal inflammation in a mouse model of...
12-Dec-2019 12:55 PM EST Add to Favorites

Free energy efficiency assessments offered

Case Western Reserve University will soon offer free energy-efficiency assessments to qualifying manufacturing companies and water treatment plants in an industrial belt spanning parts of three states—including Northeast Ohio, some of the lower...
16-Dec-2019 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Case School of Engineering creates new Computer & Data Sciences Department

Case Western Reserve University has launched a new Computer & Data Sciences Department in the Case School of Engineering (CSE) and announced the Kevin J. Kranzusch Professorship, which will be held by the future chair of the new department. The...
12-Dec-2019 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Training middle-school educators to identify suicide warning signs

New research examined the impact of virtual training on the mental-health and suicide-prevention skills of more than 33,000 middle-school educators. The researchers found, overwhelmingly, that those who completed the training had “higher levels of...
11-Dec-2019 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

New study explores the link between obesity and gum disease

A new study explores the effect of obesity on non-surgical periodontal care and evaluates potential pathways that may illustrate the connection between obesity and gum disease.
2-Dec-2019 4:35 PM EST Add to Favorites