Case Western Reserve University


Case Western Reserve University was formed in 1967 with the merger of Case Institute of Technology (1880) and Western Reserve University (1826). Case Western Reserve University is a high-caliber private university located in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The current undergraduate and graduate schools have a total of less than 10,000 students. Noteworthy achievements include the medical school for patient care and research, the Biomedical Engineering Department, the Case School of Engineering, and is credited with developing the first artificial human chromosomes among its discoveries.

Address

10900 Euclid Avenue| Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7214

News Office

Email

jason [dot] tirotta [at] case [dot] edu

Phone

216-368.6890

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Contact

cool@case.edu




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Researchers Begin to Decipher Metabolism of Sexual Assault Drug

Researchers Begin to Decipher Metabolism of Sexual Assault Drug

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a naturally occurring brain chemical with an unwieldy name: 4-hydroxybutyrate (4-HB). Taken by mouth, it can be abused or used as a date-rape drug.


Researchers focus on helping dying patients take care of unfinished business

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hospice workers have watched patients emerge from comas and cling to life long enough to tell someone they love or forgive them.


CWRU to develop technologies for virtual coaching to help patient-doctor communications

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases.


Gamma knife treatment for glioblastomas shows promising results

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center report promising results from a cutting-edge research study that treated the aggressive brain tumors glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) using a novel type of imaging called ...


Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.


Quality improvement program increases hospitals' adherence to evidenced-based care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Participation in the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines quality improvement program significantly improves hospitals' adherence to evidence-based therapies and reduces gender- and age-related disparities ...


Surgery potentially best option for severe migraine headaches

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The disability from migraine headaches is an enormous health burden affecting over 30 million Americans.


Pushing through brain barriers

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Understanding the inner workings of the brain remains one of the last frontiers in all of neurobiology. A Case Western Reserve University engineering professor is developing a miniaturized low-power device to detect how electrical ...


Study: Heart failure drug guidelines often ignored

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, despite a program to get more doctors to follow treatment guidelines, a study suggests.


Researchers identify promising therapeutic target for central nervous system injuries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scars can serve as double-edged swords in spinal cord injuries—saving a victim's life, but sealing his or her fate as a paraplegic or quadriplegic. The scar forms a wall around the wound, preventing the injury from spreading, ...


Organization analyzes how new war weapons will impact society

Organization analyzes how new war weapons will impact society

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the year 2009, when astronauts live in a space station, people send messages around the world with the touch of a finger, and diseases such as polio have virtually been eradicated from ...


Carbon nanotube

Researchers uncover recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes hold promise for delivering medicine directly to a tumor; acting as sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron; replacing costly platinum in ...


Kindle lightens textbook load, but flaws remain (AP)

Kindle lightens textbook load, but flaws remain

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- It's an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle e-reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their ...


Can social networking help consumers get healthier?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can social networking sites help people make wise health decisions? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depend on people's willingness to take action on the information they gain from the sites.


Blood vessel builders

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Futuristic plans to grow replacement organs, bones or muscles for soldiers maimed on the battlefield or patients suffering from debilitating disease or injury won't be anything but science fiction unless new blood vessels ...