http://www.case.edu/think/ en-us Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST tricia.schellenbach@case.edu (Tricia Schellenbach) gina.prodan@case.edu (Gina Prodan) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Movable Type v3.121 http://case.edu/think/breakingnews/heel.html A new study led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University examines single threads of these essential connectors and found the weakest links-potential targets for imaging techniques to detect problems before a tendon fails and for drugs to increase flexibility and heal damage. http://case.edu/think/breakingnews/heel.html Research Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://blog.case.edu/think/2010/07/30/cwru_dental_researchers_discover_oral_cancer_biomarker Detecting oral cancer in its earliest stages can save the lives of the nearly 40,500 people diagnosed annually. But early detection has been difficult. http://blog.case.edu/think/2010/07/30/cwru_dental_researchers_discover_oral_cancer_biomarker Research Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/bouncingback.html New research from Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, Cleveland State University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland does more than illuminate grim statistics-it also documents how community groups mobilized to respond to the crisis. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/bouncingback.html Research Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST http://blog.case.edu/think/2010/08/01/embracing_complexity Mathematicians from more than a dozen countries will gather at Case Western Reserve University next week to discuss the theoretical world of high dimensions. While we live in a three-dimensional world, in this discipline, mathematicians work with thousands, millions, billions of dimensions -- even dimensions approaching infinity. http://blog.case.edu/think/2010/08/01/embracing_complexity Research Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/digitalmedicalrecords.html While the benefits of giving health records a digital makeover can be substantial, possible problems with software or hardware and potential user errors could put health providers at an increased liability risk, according to two researchers from Case Western Reserve University. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/digitalmedicalrecords.html Research Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/careproject.html The funding supports the Clinically Applied Rehabilitation Engineering (CARE) project -- a research initiative dedicated to improving the lives of patients with mobility-related conditions and diseases, ranging from sports injuries to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and musculoskeletal conditions like arthritis. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/careproject.html Research Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/insulindose.html When it comes to using insulin pens to manage diabetes, the visually impaired do just as well as their sighted counterparts -- and in some cases, even better, according to research from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/insulindose.html Research Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/postheartattack.html Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing researchers checked up on 248 individuals one year after completing a 12-week rehabilitation following a cardiac event-a heart attack, bypass surgery or angioplasty-and found that only 37 percent exercised three times a week to keep their hearts healthy. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/postheartattack.html Research Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/prostatediseaselink.html New study explores connection between gum disease and prostatitis. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/prostatediseaselink.html Research Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/fireblanket.html Video-enhanced story: Case Western Reserve University, NASA seek the right fabric to cover homes. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/fireblanket.html Research Tues, 06 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/mendboneloss.html Inside, the body's own stem cells switched on to close gap. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/mendboneloss.html Research Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/robot.html Case Western Reserve University scientists find insect's brain fires out commands to walk and run. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/robot.html Research Thurs, 01 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/tibetansecrets.html In the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team has identified a gene that allows Tibetans to live and work more than two miles above sea level without getting altitude sickness. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/tibetansecrets.html Research Tues, 29 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/earlyhominid.html Three Case Western Reserve University researchers: Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Bruce Latimer and Beverly Saylor, were among an international team of scientists who reported the most complete skeleton so far of a 3.6 million-year-old Lucy species, Australopithecus afarensis. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/earlyhominid.html Research Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/leadexposure.html Leaded gasoline was responsible for about two-thirds of toxic lead that African-American children in Cleveland ingested or inhaled during the latter two-thirds of the 20th century, according to a new study in Science of the Total Environment. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/leadexposure.html Research Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/infectionrisk.html JAMA study links drug-resistant staph to increased risk of death in cystic fibrosis patients. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/infectionrisk.html Research Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/healthymessage.html With the comic entitled Small Changes Big Results, researchers at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University blend the fun of comic book-style storytelling with advice on healthy living. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/healthymessage.html Research Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/gumdisease.html Researcher links common gum disease to full-term baby death. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/gumdisease.html Research Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/boardroom.html Think entrepreneurship is a young person's game? Think again. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/boardroom.html Research Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/exportadoptions.html How is social media changing our sense of good and bad taste? http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/badtaste.html Research Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/exportadoptions.html Expert says trend in international adoptions should be tracked. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/exportadoptions.html Research Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/organdonor.html Advocates argue that physicians -- not the license bureau -- should steer organ donation decisions. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/organdonor.html Research Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazmRa0C5kE Bottle feeding manufacturers offer an array of products that claim to be best for babies. A nursing professor at Case Western Reserve University has been studying bottle and nipple systems and has tips for parents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazmRa0C5kE Research Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/healthcare.html Arguments on different sides of the issue show there's nothing black and white about reform. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/healthcare.html Research Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNLbJIzqO6M Video: Researchers have developed a method to heal massive bone loss by using the body's own stem cells. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNLbJIzqO6M Research Fri, 28 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/helpingteens.html Adolescence can be a lonely time under the best circumstances, and teenagers living with mental illness can find themselves even more isolated. Parents and schools can have enormous influence in either protecting against or magnifying stigmas young people encounter because of their illness, according to researchers. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/helpingteens.html Research Thu, 27 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/stemcellssavesight.html Researchers trying to restore vision damaged by disease have found promise in a tiny implant that sows the seeds of new cells. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/stemcellssavesight.html Research Wed, 26 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/nervestostandup.html A type of nerve cuff technology invented by two Case Western Reserve University biomedical engineers promises to some day orchestrate the stepping motion that will allow wheelchair-bound individuals to walk. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/nervestostandup.html Research Tue, 25 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/whereyoulive.html Where you live plays a tremendous role in how you live, according to social work researcher Anna Maria Santiago, who will officially join the faculty of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University as the inaugural holder of the Leona Bevis and Marguerite Haynam Professorship in Community Development on July 1. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/whereyoulive.html Research Mon, 24 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/telescope.html Telescopes are more than stargazing equipment; they are the gateways to scientific discovery. Just ask Case Western Reserve University astronomer Paul Harding. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/telescope.html Research Fri, 21 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/genetherapy.html Desperate diseases call for innovative measures. That's why a group of specialists around the country are teaming up on what Alan Lerner, MD, calls a radically different approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. http://www.case.edu/magazine/springsummer2010/genetherapy.html Research Thu, 20 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/dentalresin.html Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine are testing a resin polymer designed to infiltrate tooth enamel to seal and stop the spread of tooth decay. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/dentalresin.html Research Wed, 19 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/oralbacteria.html Researchers find oral bacteria can put even healthy pregnant women at risk for complications. Even mild gum disease can allow oral bacteria to enter the bloodstream where it can put healthy mothers-to-be at risk for serious pregnancy complications, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/oralbacteria.html Research Tue, 18 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/trackingvitals.html With the help of home monitoring devices, patients with complex health issues can avoid hospital stays and manage their care from the comfort of their own home. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University will study how effective one such device—the alarm-clock-sized TeleCare—is in keeping the chronically ill healthy and out of the hospital. http://www.case.edu/think/breakingnews/trackingvitals.html Research Mon, 17 May 2010 08:00:00 EST