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Released: 22-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Database Evaluates Molecules for Carcinogens, Toxins
Case Western Reserve University

A CWRU chemist's software program, a database of known toxic and carcinogenic chemical molecules, can help chemists determine within minutes whether a new chemical presents a liability for cancer, birth defects, side effects, or environmental hazards.

Released: 22-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Coal Slurry Studies, Applications Closer to the Heart
Case Western Reserve University

Others suffering from heart disease may one day benefit from research by a CWRU engineer who had open heart surgery and an aortic valve replacement. A former student piqued the professor's interest in how the laser diagnostic techniques he developed to study coal slurries might be applied to blood flow in an artificial heart.

Released: 22-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EDT
First World Wide Web City Encyclopedia
Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland is the first major city to publish a city encyclopedia online. The Web resource updates the 1987 "Encyclopedia of Cleveland History," the first encyclopedia produced about a major U.S. city.

Released: 22-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EDT
How Raising Another Set of Kids Affects Grandmothers
Case Western Reserve University

Grandparents are primary caregivers for more than 5 percent of U.S. children. A CWRU nursing professor examined health, stress, coping, and social support for grandmothers who are their grandchildren's primary caregiver, versus grandmothers who live with grandchildren but are not responsible for raising them.

Released: 22-Oct-1998 12:00 AM EDT
Arrhythmia Research Keeps Hearts Beating Steadily
Case Western Reserve University

A biomedical engineering professor at Case Western Reserve University recently received two major grants to support his research on the electrical activity of the heart to learn more about abnormal heart rhythms called arrhythmias, which kill more than 400,000 Americans each year.

Released: 10-Nov-1998 12:00 AM EST
Hope for Relief from Burning Mouth Pain
Case Western Reserve University

An anticonvulsant drug may bring significant relief to some of the 1.3 million Americans who have burning mouth syndrome, a chronic, often debilitating condition whose cause remains a medical mystery. A Case Western Reserve University dentistry professor's study of the drug appears in the November issue of "Oral Surgery."

Released: 2-Dec-1998 12:00 AM EST
Telescope Online for Public Use
Case Western Reserve University

By December 15, a new telescope will go online at Case Western Reserve University as the country's first Earth-bound robotic telescope accessible to the public.

Released: 7-May-1999 12:00 AM EDT
John Glenn: Commencement Speaker
Case Western Reserve University

John Glenn, former senator from Ohio, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, and later the oldest person ever to go into space, will deliver the address at Case Western Reserve University's commencement convocation Sunday, May 16.

Released: 16-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
E-mail, Best Medium for Delivering Bad News
Case Western Reserve University

A study has found that people usually are more honest, and distort bad news less, when delivering bad news via e-mail than through other methods, such as by telephone or in person.

Released: 17-Jul-1999 12:00 AM EDT
Same Ads May Reach Both Minorities, Non-Minorities
Case Western Reserve University

A new study of the way individuals respond to advertisements shows how advertisers, through careful use of the individuals pictured in their ads as well as other visual cues, can appeal to minorities and non-minorities in the same ad.


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