When highly educated, dual-career couples have their first child, both spouses think the baby increases their workloads by equal amounts – but a new study suggests that’s not true.
On May 5, just 5 days before Mother’s Day, a convoy of 39 babies, some small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, made the second biggest trek of their lives. The babies moved to a new neonatal intensive care unit that’s opening at Akron Children’s Hospital.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital announced today it has received a combined $5 million gift from Worthington Industries and the McConnell Family Foundation to help establish the Nationwide Experimental Therapeutics (NEXT) Consortium.
In the midst of the growing and often conflicting data around the benefits of statins, researchers are developing gene-based resources to help improve statin efficacy and cost-effectiveness and to reduce the incidence of adverse effects – some of which can be fatal.
Case Western Reserve Radiology Professor Mark Griswold knew his world had changed the moment he first used a prototype of Microsoft’s HoloLens headset. Two months later, one of the university’s medical students illustrated exactly why. Today, Griswold described how HoloLens can transform learning.
Learning a new technology can be a daunting task for adults of any age, but this is especially true in older adults. New research from Drs. Kate Magsamen-Conrad and John Dowd, assistant professors of communication at Bowling Green State University, and BGSU graduate students Shrinkhala Upadhyaya and Claire Youngnyo Joa, looked at tablet acceptance and use across multiple generations.
Researchers have identified two seemingly unrelated but strong predictors of obesity: having low self-esteem related to one’s weight and keeping food visibly available around the house, outside the kitchen.
A new study offers insight into the attitudes around the growing – and unregulated – practice of breast milk sharing. Results indicate that friends and relatives are sharing breast milk with each other, but that many may not be aware of the risks, even when the milk is from someone they know. The study also found that healthcare practitioners are being left out of the milk-sharing dialogue– and that there are untapped opportunities to encourage women to donate desperately needed, extra breast milk for premature babies.
A national survey released today by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center shows that most women don’t know the risks or symptoms females face when it comes to having a stroke. The survey of 1,000 women was released in time for Stroke Awareness Month in May.
Outcomes regarding musculoskeletal disease among severely obese adolescents participating in the “Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery” (Teen-LABS) study were published this week in JAMA Pediatrics.
Ahmad M. Khalil, PhD, and his team identified parts of the body that rev up one of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, HER2+. Their findings appear this month in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment about the 38 genes and molecules that most likely trigger HER2+ cancer cells to spread.
The fastest growing pediatric hospital in the nation is expanding again to meet the growing needs of the patients and families it treats from around northern Ohio and the country.
Inspired by a half century’s worth of big tobacco research around the taste of nicotine, a smoking cessation scientist is working to understand how a person’s taste perception might make them a better or worse candidate for oral nicotine replacement therapy.
A Case Western Reserve University researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to combine antibodies and the tobacco mosaic virus into create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers
Researchers have uncovered the first evidence of a genetic link between prodigy and autism. The scientists found that child prodigies in their sample share some of the same genetic variations with people who have autism.
Thanks to the Alana Foundation, Down syndrome researcher Alberto Costa, MD, PhD, has taken another step toward making Northeast Ohio a leader in exploring potential treatments for the genetic condition. Case Western Reserve has received $1.7 million for basic science research collaboration with MIT.
Case Western Reserve University's Inamori International Center selects celebrated philosopher and groundbreaking scholar Martha Nussbaum for its 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize.
In their efforts to forecast the spread of an invasive worm species, researchers are bringing a new weapon to bear: statistical analysis.
Opening a new healthcare facility is a daunting challenge – especially when you’re trying to build it on time, under budget and with 20 percent less building space.That’s exactly what Akron Children’s Hospital accomplished with its Kay Jewelers Pavilion, which will open two months earlier than planned and with more than $60 million in cost savings. The hospital is sharing its success story in a new book called L3: Building a Lean Hospital Facility.
A new study suggests that doctors may want to focus on parents and not just on their patients when it comes to caring for children with autism spectrum disorder. The study, published in the April issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that parents who were taught specific behavior management skills saw a dramatic improvement in their child’s behavior.
One of the problems that parents may have during the springtime is deciphering whether their children’s sneezing is due to a cold or allergies. “Runny, stuffy or itchy noses, sneezing, coughing, fatigue, and headaches can all be symptoms of both allergies and colds but when parents pay close attention to minor details they will be able to tell the difference,” says Michelle Lierl, MD, a pediatric allergist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Pets can pass diseases to humans, especially when a pet owner's immune system is compromised. Here, veterinarians outline ways for families to avoid disease transmission by choosing the right type of pet--or making small changes in the ways they enjoy the pets they already have.
Led by Case Western Reserve researchers, a multi-institutional team identified two topical drugs (miconazole and clobetasol) capable of stimulating regeneration of damaged brain cells and reversing paralysis in animal models of MS. The results appear online Monday, April 20, in the journal Nature.
BOWLING GREEN, O.—In freshwater lakes around the world, a blue-green slick is often seen floating on the water. These algae blooms often result from an overabundance of what's known as cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, which may be toxic to humans and other animals. Bowling Green State University hosted a workshop on April 13 and 14 to take a closer look at these harmful algal blooms, or HABs, which exist worldwide.
A new study led by researchers at the Nisonger Center at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center has published online today in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (JCAP) and shows the addition of risperidone to parent training and a stimulant also improves teachers’ assessments of anxiety and social avoidance. Improvement in teacher-rated anxiety and social withdrawal also contributed to improvements in parent-rated disruptive behavior. Children who showed reduced anxiety also showed less disruptive behavior.
The first round of tests have been completed for members of the Cincinnati Boychoir who are part of a joint study with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to look at the changing voices of male singers.
Radiation oncology doctors at University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center perform the first-ever prostate cancer treatment with the newly approved SpaceOAR, which is an injectable gel that creates a space between the prostate and the rectum to move the rectum away from radiation used in treatment.
As Ohio teachers prepared to be evaluated on student test scores, they increasingly began to balk at turning their classrooms over to student teachers. The resulting placement shortage inspired a grassroots alliance of Ohio education stakeholders to seek new ways to provide this crucial classroom experience to future teachers in training. Co-teaching, a new approach borrowed from special education is now being piloted by Baldwin Wallace University in the Berea, Ohio schools. The method aims to reverse the shortage of student teaching placements, fueled by fears about new accountability standards for teachers.
A mesh with a high-tech coating captures oil while water passes right through. With further development of this technology, the researchers say, "you could potentially catch an oil spill with a net."
A team led by Case Western Reserve researchers has identified a promising approach to lowering relapse rates among youths addicted to illegal drugs or alcohol. These findings were posted online this month in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
Exercise researchers have developed a new treadmill that automatically changes speed to match the pace of the runner.
Age, disease and even playing certain sports like basketball can increase a person’s risk of developing a detached retina. While surgery is typically used to treat the condition, subsequent scarring and damage to the retina can cause permanent vision problems or even blindness. New research is exploring the biochemical processes that lead to retinal scarring in the hopes of developing the first ever drug intervention to help improve the way retinas heal.
Researchers studying the commonly used pain reliever acetaminophen found it has a previously unknown side effect: It blunts positive emotions.
Professor Jonathan Stamler’s latest findings regarding nitric oxide have the potential to reshape fundamentally the way we think about the respiratory system – and offer new avenues to save lives. His findings were recently published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A new study provides an inside look at the most powerful explosions in the universe.
A new study finds that the incidence of pediatric melanoma in the United States decreased from 2004 to 2010.
When children are unmotivated at school, new research suggests their genes may be part of the equation.
After discovering a group of people resistant to tuberculosis infection, Case Western Reserve researchers are leading an international team dedicated to understanding how they fight off a disease that claims 1.5 million lives each year. The team’s goal is to use lessons learned to develop therapies.
The use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy can help people who have both obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and hypertension lower their blood pressure, which in turn could possibly reduce their risk of suffering a deadly heart attack or stroke in the future. However, the data is unclear on the impact of CPAP use in millions of OSA-sufferers who have a resistant form of hypertension that doesn’t significantly improve despite multi-drug therapy. A global research team recently looked at a set of pooled data and determined that untreated OSA may be one reason why resistant hypertension doesn’t respond to traditional therapy, and that CPAP use may yield even greater blood pressure reductions in this difficult to treat population than expected.
A study of 4,500 U.S. children over 20 years has identified a single test that can predict which kids will become nearsighted by the eighth grade: a measure of their current refractive error.
A new study in JAMA Surgery demonstrates that patients who underwent laparoscopic colectomy procedures required fewer days of health care utilization and the health care system spent less on their acute and follow-up care than those who underwent traditional open surgery.
Aside from the societal increase and prevalence of social media, Dr. Stephanie Pope discovered that doctors and patients sometimes blur lines of their relationships. Instances where social media research of patients in treatment helped to prevent injury were recorded, while definitive, institutional policy and procedures were sorely lagging causing potential issues in patient care.
Researchers surveying for endangered primates in national parks and forest reserves of Ivory Coast found, to their surprise, that most of these protected areas had been turned into illegal cocoa farms, a new study reports.
A new tissue culture model using human white blood cells shows how people with a latent – or symptom-free – tuberculosis infection are protected from active disease by a critical early step in their immune response, researchers say.
On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy (University of California Press, 2015), a new book by Case Western Reserve University sociologists Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black focuses on life events resulting in teen motherhood, revealing some realities behind the statistics.
Dr. James Voos, MD, chief of sport medicine at University Hospitals in Cleveland and head team physician of the Cleveland Browns, offers tips for avoiding "weekend warrior" athletic injuries.
The concept was simple: If two compounds individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, it’s worth trying the two together. Metformin and Vitamin D3 proved dramatically better than either option alone. Their findings served as the cover feature for the February Cancer Prevention Research.
Ketamine, used for operative procedures, has shown such promise in mouse models that Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers soon will launch a two-year clinical trial using low doses of the medication in up to 35 individuals with the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett Syndrome.
Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field.
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