Health + Wellness
June 18, 2012
Health experts agree that reducing the stigma associated with adolescent mental illness is an essential step toward increasing the number of teenagers who seek the help they need.
But, say researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ in the Journal of Nursing Measurement, the relative dearth of data regardi...
June 13, 2012
A team of researchers, led by Goutham Narla at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine in collaboration with scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, have discovered a previously unrecognized signaling network disrupted in lung cancer that can be turned back on by a novel...
June 08, 2012
Women, keep those toothbrushes and dental floss handy. A comprehensive review of women’s health studies by Charlene Krejci, associate clinical professor at the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Dental Medicine, has shown a link between women’s health issues and gum disease.
Across the ages,...
June 04, 2012
CLEVELAND - Through the Medicaid Technical Assistance and Policy Program (MEDTAPP) Healthcare Access Initiative (HAI), ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine has secured $6.4 million in federal funds through Ohio Medicaid to support its longstanding involvement in the health of its commu...
June 01, 2012
Children today may be busier than ever, but ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ psychologists have found their imaginations haven’t suffered—in fact, they appear to have increased.
Psychologists Jessica Dillon and Sandra Russ expected the opposite outcome when they analyzed 14 play studies that Russ co...
May 30, 2012
Bacteria provide a well-known playground for scientists, and the evolution of these earliest life forms has shed important perspective on potential therapies for some of the most common, deadly diseases. Researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine have discovered that the gas n...
May 29, 2012
The culprit of a failed hip or knee replacements just might be found in the mouth. DNA testing of bacteria from the fluid that lubricates hip and knee joints had bacteria with the same DNA as the plaque from patients with gum disease and in need of a joint replacement, according to research from the...
May 24, 2012
A substance in human mesenchymal stem cells that promotes growth appears to spur restoration of nerves and their function in rodent models of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ have found.
Their study has been published in the online version of Nature Neuroscien...
May 21, 2012
CLEVELAND - This year marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ, an innovative medical school designed to train future physician-researchers. Cleveland Clinic and ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ celebrated the milestone May ...
May 10, 2012
CLEVELAND - The link between psoriasis and cardiovascular events has been observed for years, however the mechanics were unknown. For the first time, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine researchers have discovered preclinical evidence demonstrating that the inflammatory skin disease l...