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University Hospitals Case Medical Center Only Cleveland Hospital Ranked in Major Teaching Hospitals Category of Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 (1060 reads)

University Hospitals Case Medical Center is the only Cleveland hospital ranked in the major teaching hospitals category of the recently released Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals National Benchmarks study.  Released by the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, the annual study identifies the top 100 U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance.



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CNNHealth.com - Natasha's lesson helps save Ohio girl
Thursday, March 26, 2009 (476 reads)

Connie and Donald McCracken were watching CNN one evening last week when they learned of the tragic death of actress Natasha Richardson from a head injury. Immediately, their minds turned to their 7-year-old daughter, Morgan, who was upstairs getting ready for bed.

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Study Reports rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Ohio’s National Guard
Monday, March 23, 2009 (857 reads)

CLEVELAND – Ohio’s National Guardsmen and Reserve head off to war armed with more than their combat skills. Ohio leaders have led the nation in shielding its citizen-soldiers from battlefield stress with mental health support to protect them from the trauma of war before and after deployment.

Psychiatry researchers at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC), Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the University of Toledo Health Science Campus and the University of Michigan are collaborating on an ongoing study of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for their own National Guard and Reserve soldiers.

The research team is working on a multiyear, $12 million U.S. Department of Defense-funded research project – the first of its kind in U.S. history – involving the Ohio National Guard and two primary sites, UHCMC and the University of Toledo Medical Center. In this project, “risk and resilience factors” for the development of PTSD and other mental illnesses among Ohio’s citizen-soldiers are carefully being detailed at baseline and then during long-term follow-up in 3,000 members of the Guard, before and after deployment.



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University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University announce study of investigational Alzheimer’s treatment Memory and Cognition Center enrolling participants
Sunday, March 22, 2009 (835 reads)

CLEVELAND — Researchers at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine announced today they are accepting volunteers into a clinical trial of an experimental treatment aimed at improving memory and thinking in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

The compound, ABT-089, is being developed by Abbott. It is designed to activate receptors on nerve cells in the brain that regulate the release of neurotransmitters, chemicals that nerve cells use to communicate with one another. In patients with Alzheimer’s disease, these nerve cells lose the ability to communicate with one another and eventually they die.

“This is an interesting new concept in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease,” stated Dr. Alan Lerner, the Principal Investigator of the study and Director of the Memory and Cognition Center of the Neurological Institute at UHCMC.

 



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