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Nearly one out of every three Cleveland homes sold by banks after mortgage foreclosures end up condemned, abandoned, boarded up or demolished, and a unique “hazard-rate” analysis shows that the failure rate for these transactions is five times higher for larger investors and out-of-state buyers than for small investors, according to a new study by local housing and urban planning experts.
New research from Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of autistic children generate more information at rest – a 42% increase on average.
Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also experience depression. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found that during PTSD treatments, rapid improvements in depression symptoms are associated with better outcomes.
AIDS researchers from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center have received a seven-year funding award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This award includes $12.7 million for core research funding and the potential of an additional $9 million to support clinical trials of promising treatments
Case Western Reserve University continued its surge in undergraduate applications this year, as more than 21,600 students applied for admission to the Class of 2018. The total represents an 18 percent increase over last year—and a leap of nearly 300 percent since 2007.
New research from David Westaway, PhD, of the University of Alberta and Jiri Safar, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has uncovered a quality control mechanism in brain cells that may help keep deadly neurological diseases in check for months or years.
A team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have identified critical complex mechanisms involved in the metastasis of deadly “triple negative” breast cancers (TNBC). These tumors are extremely difficult to treat, frequently return after remission, and are the most aggressive form of breast cancer in women. The discovery of this critical interaction of mechanisms could be used to develop new life saving treatments to kill metastatic tumors in TNBC.
A study, published online today in Nature, used stem cells to correct a defective “ring chromosome” with a normal chromosome. Such therapy has the promise to correct chromosome abnormalities that give rise to birth defects and disabilities.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have identified a microRNA biomarker that shows promise in predicting treatment response in the most common form of ovarian cancer – a breakthrough that has the potential to improve outcomes for patients with the disease.
When inmates with severe mental illness are released from jail, their priority is finding shelter, food, money and clothes. Even needs as basic as soap and a place to bathe can be hard to come by for people leaving jail, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University’s social work school.
scientist Jessica F. Green explains how private firms, in many cases, are emerging as leaders in tackling the world’s climate concerns. Some, Green writes in Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance (Princeton University Press, 2014), are actually creating and enforcing climate-friendly rules that exceed those of international treaties and government regulations. For example, Walmart set long-term goals in 2005 for renewable energy, waste reduction and other sustainability measures. The world’s largest retailer also created an index to help its suppliers evaluate the sustainability of their products and performance—with the requirement that those companies either meet the standards or lose Walmart as a customer. “For better or worse,” writes Green, “Walmart is now a global rule-maker for sustainability.” And, in anticipation of legislated environmental measures, Walmart recently announced it would cut 20 million metric t
Oxford University Press is publishing an updated edition of an award-winning how-to guide for making oral presentations called SPEAK. The primer was originally developed for undergraduate students in Case Western Reserve University’s Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) program.
Many rare disorders are caused by gene mutation. Yet until now the underlying genetic cause of more common conditions has evaded scientists. New research finds that six common diseases arise from DNA changes located outside genes. The study shows that multiple DNA changes, or variants, work in concert to affect genes, leading to autoimmune diseases.
In Lauren Burke's required social work field placement at Case Western Reserve University, she spent the last 18 months at Spirit of Leadership at the Pebble Ledge Ranch in Novelty, Ohio, learning to communicate with horses (and a zebra), becoming “one with the herd” and teaching others how to do the same in an experiential learning with horses program that inspires self-discovery.
A new study by Case Western Reserve University’s social work school found that children’s readiness in language, math and logic improved significantly by the programs offered at 24 pilot universal prekindergarten pilot program (UPK) sites in Greater Cleveland.
A central resource for research and information about creating and sustaining mixed-income communities has launched with resources available online at http://nimc.case.edu/ at Case Western Reserve University.
A new data brief released by the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods at Case Western Reserve University (PRCHN) shows that more than one-in-five African-American young adults in Cleveland, ages 18 to 29, routinely uses little cigars.
Researchers hope to discover why some people struggle with their spirituality or religious beliefs and practices in the face of life’s challenges while others don’t. The answers, they say, may offer clues that help prevent stress-related health problems, because such strong internal conflicts can cause long-term physical and emotional consequences.
A discovery from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic researchers could provide epilepsy patients invaluable advance guidance about their chances to improve symptoms through surgery.
"Wanted on Warrants" by Daniel J. Flannery from Case Western Reserve University provides a history of the Fugitive Safe Surrender program that gave people with outstanding warrants a chance to surrender and build a new life.
Case Western Reserve University social work faculty found Romanian adoption practices lag 30 to 50 years behind those in the United States due to inaccessibility to the newest adoption practices and information. That will change as the social work faculty begins training.
Oral pain that feels like a scalded mouth and can last for months has baffled dental researchers since the 1970s, when burning oral sensations were linked to mucosal, periodontal, and restorative disorders and mental or emotional causes.
Derek Taylor, PhD, a member of the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, has been awarded the prestigious New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH awards this grant to scientists proposing highly innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research, under the agency’s High Risk-High Reward program.
A $7.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will establish the NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR), a comprehensive, easily accessible and well-annotated national repository of sleep data. The 5-year grant will make data from more than 50,000 sleep studies available to sleep researchers across the country.
The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) new Provocative Questions research funding program has awarded a prestigious grant to researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University’s Schools of Medicine and Engineering to study tumor detection at the earliest stages of growth.
Five Cleveland biomedical research and health care institutions have received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), one of the National Institutes of Health, to collaborate on developing the Cleveland Stroke Clinical Trials Regional Coordinating Center.
Researchers today published findings that point to a promising discovery for the treatment and prevention of prion diseases, rare neurodegenerative disorders that are always fatal. They discovered that recombinant human prion protein stops the propagation of prions, the infectious pathogens that cause the diseases.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found unexpected similarities between proteins that were thought to be fundamentally different. The team published a new study in Nature showing that non-specific proteins actually have the ability to be specific about where they bind to RNA – seeking out and binding with particular sequences of nucleotides.
A Blue Ribbon panel of former international tribunal prosecutors, international tribunal judges and leading academics, led by Case Western Reserve University Law Professor Michael Scharf and David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, will present a blueprint for a tribunal to prosecute perpetrators of atrocities in Syria. The panel’s “Statute for a Syrian Extraordinary Tribunal to Prosecute Atrocity Crimes” will be discussed in Washington, D.C., at The National Press Club, 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3. Speakers include Scharf, Crane, and possibly members of Congress. The event will be moderated by Paul Williams, president of the Public International Law & Policy Group.
For the first time, Cameroon’s traditional oral Fun’da poetry performed by women has been translated into English and appears in print in a new volume of essays on the changing field of ethnic studies, Defying the Global Language (Teneo Press), edited by Cheryl Toman from Case Western Reserve University
Scientists have developed a novel molecular probe detectable by PET imaging. The new molecular marker, MeDAS, offers the first non-invasive visualization of myelin integrity of the entire spinal cord at the same time, as published today in an article in the Annals of Neurology.
The field of gene therapy promises to dramatically transform the treatment of disease, as well as fundamentally change the delivery of healthcare in the twenty-first century. With an acceleration of advances taking place in the field, a new book provides a comprehensive review of the field of gene-based therapeutics in an expanded third edition textbook that concentrates on advances in areas that were in their infancy when the last edition was published in 2002.
“It’s foreign to our thinking that water wouldn’t simply come out of the pipes,” said John Broich, Case Western Reserve University historian. His new book London, Water and the Making of the Modern City (University of Pittsburgh Press), chronicles the struggles.
The extra demands on parents of chronically ill children cause stress that affects the whole family, according to a systematic review conducted by Case Western Reserve University researchers that also explored what factors in the child’s care most contribute to the added strain.
Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, already recognized for introducing original design concepts to business management, has formed a new Department of Design & Innovation that embraces the research university’s focus on entrepreneurism, technology development and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Case Western Reserve University is part of a landmark study that has discovered four novel gene variations associated with blood pressure.
Case Western Reserve researchers have identified a genetic factor that blocks the blood vessel inflammation that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other potentially life-threatening events. The breakthrough involving Kruppel-like factor (KLF) 15 is the latest in a string of discoveries from the laboratory of professor of medicine Mukesh K. Jain, MD, FAHA, that involves a remarkable genetic family.
By studying rare families in which a daughter shares the same Y chromosome as her father, Michael Weiss, MD, PhD, and his colleagues at the CWRU School of Medicine have determined that the pathway for male sexual development is not as consistent and robust as scientists have always assumed.
International law usually develops gradually—a process known as crystallization, but sometimes transformative change, known as a “Grotian Moment,” causes rules and doctrines to emerge surprisingly quickly. Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Michael P. Scharf’s new book, Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change: Recognizing Grotian Moments (Cambridge University Press), explains why recognizing a Grotian moment is important.
An international team of scientists have demonstrated that a simple, low-cost intervention holds the potential to eradicate a debilitating tropical disease that threatens nearly 1.4 billion people in more than six dozen countries.
Grandmothers who care for their grandkids fulltime need help for depression and family strains, report researchers from the Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.
Professors at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law have overwhelmingly approved sweeping curriculum changes designed to give graduates the essential skills employers value most. The new academic model dramatically increases students’ writing requirements as well as opportunities for direct legal experience. The new curriculum also includes a required series of courses on leadership taught by faculty from the university’s Weatherhead School of Management.
Dermatology researcher Nicole Ward, PhD, has earned her third National Institutes of Health grant in a year – including two that scored in the first percentile. With this most recent award, an R21, she will investigate the role the nervous system plays in psoriasis.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine have discovered how a common oral bacterium can contribute to colorectal cancer.
Two-dozen of the world’s foremost counter-piracy experts will gather at an international conference on Sept. 6 at Case Western Reserve University School of Law to analyze novel, front-line legal options and challenges in the fight against maritime piracy.
Ernst & Young (EY), the global “Big Four” professional services firm formed via the 1989 merger of Ernst & Whinney and Arthur Young & Company, has gifted its historical archives to Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library (KSL). The collection will be known as the Ernst & Young Founders Archive.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic have created “What you should know about mental health in youth with epilepsy,” an information booklet and CD that answers questions about children’s medical and psychological issues.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a new molecular pathway responsible for causing heart failure and showed that a first-in-class prototype drug, JQ1, blocks this pathway to protect the heart from damage.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine have found that a genetic process among the many species of rodents could have significant implications regarding our assumptions about sex determination and the pace of evolution.
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