http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Case Western Reserve University 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. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-global-views-nurses-end-of-life-patients.html Health Tue, 14 May 2013 10:51:35 EST news287747489 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 novel method to disrupt this growth signaling pathway, with findings that suggest a new treatment for breast, colon, melanoma and other cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-scientists-personalized-cancer-therapy.html Cancer Thu, 02 May 2013 17:16:42 EST news286733794 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 trials of the medication within the next few months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-spinoff-rexceptor-alzheimer-treatment.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:02:13 EST news286113727 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 and took ninth-place—out of 1,200 entries—at the Rice Business Plan Competition, in the last two week. The team's product, based on common items, is a hand-held device that detects a magnetic substance that malaria parasites release when digesting red blood cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hand-held-device-cheaply-quickly-diagnosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:34:15 EST news285942847 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 Reserve University's School of Dental Medicine and Weatherhead School of Management. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-emotional-intelligence-trumps-iq-dentist-patient.html Dentistry Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:11:43 EST news285869466 Neuroscientists from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the University of Toronto have developed an efficient and reliable method of analyzing brain activity to detect autism in children. Their findings appear today in the online journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-autism-brain.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:00:04 EST news285436064 Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to researchers from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-mothers-postpartum-depression-online-professional.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:47:44 EST news284316402 In Norway, families receive public support that enables them to care for aging parents in their own homes and keep them out of nursing homes. This includes a salary for a son or daughter to provide care. They also focus on adapting houses to the needs of older people through municipal government-financed repairs and renovations. The nursing home is the last resort. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cwru-professor-lessons-graying-population.html Health Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:35:11 EST news282998104 ConservoCare, LLC, a spinoff of research at Case Western Reserve University, has obtained license options through the university's Technology Transfer Office to develop a medical device for bladder control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cwru-spinoff-conservocare-options-medical.html Other Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:28:29 EST news282569302 A new method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could routinely spot specific cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and other maladies early, when they're most treatable, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center suggest in the journal Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-mri-method-fingerprints-tissues-diseases.html Medical research Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:00:01 EST news282396217 An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-prion-protein-iron-metabolism.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:46:49 EST news282397602 Blood on your toothbrush can be a warning sign of gum disease. And, if you are overweight, it can indicate other serious health issues, such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-literature-inflammation-links-obesity-gum.html Dentistry Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:13:22 EST news282294488 A Case Western Reserve University professor has found that young people addicted to alcohol and drugs can increase their chances of recovery by helping others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-youth-addiction-recovery-aa-related-tool.html Addiction Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:47:25 EST news281184437 New research by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine finds that cultures commonly used to detect bacterial infections in low birth-weight newborns with early onset sepsis may actually overlook some germs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-multiple-infection-birth-weight-newborns.html Pediatrics Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:00:15 EST news280598834 (Medical Xpress)—Watching a loved one die tests some family members' relationships with God or the higher being of one's faith. And the spiritual anger and resentment grow with the level of pain and suffering their family member endures, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-family-struggles-anger-relative-dying.html Health Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:10:03 EST news280493870