Case Western Reserve University

Researcher searches for global views of nurses' end-of-life care for patients

Nurses will use extreme measures to save their patients and parents; but if they were dying, they prefer less aggressive ones for themselves, according to results from an international survey on nurses' end-of-life preferences.

Health created May 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists discover new target for personalized cancer therapy

A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a ...

Cancer created May 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hand-held device cheaply, quickly diagnosis malaria

A Case Western Reserve University student-led startup aimed at saving lives through faster, better and cheaper malaria diagnosis won the 2013 LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition at the University of Akron ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Emotional intelligence trumps IQ in dentist-patient relationship, study finds

IQ directly relates to how students perform on tests in the first two years of dental school. But emotional intelligence (EI) trumps IQ in how well dental students work with patients, report researchers from Case Western ...

Dentistry created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research spinoff ReXceptor gets license for Alzheimer's treatment

Case Western Reserve's Technology Transfer Office has granted an exclusive license of a novel Alzheimer's Disease (AD) treatment strategy to spinoff company ReXceptor Inc., which plans to initiate early-stage human clinical ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0