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January 24, 2007
Foundation awards nearly $300,000 to Health Science Center for national study
San Antonio Business Journal, January 24, 2007
The Commonwealth Fund has donated $263,658 to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports research into health care issues. The university is leading a national evaluation project designed to revolutionize how primary care is delivered across the country. Carlos Jaen, professor and chair, will work with faculty from Case Western Reserve University, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Lehigh Valley Hospital and the University of Colorado to conduct the research. Final reports will be released in early 2009. Read article.
December 08, 2006
Standardizing ICU care would not harm patients
Reuters, December 7, 2006
Resources used by different physicians in intensive care units (ICU) vary widely without influencing patient outcomes, according to a report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Garland and colleagues from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center investigated the discretionary costs, ICU length of stay, and hospital mortality for 1,184 patients cared for by nine different intensive care specialists. Read article.
November 22, 2006
University Circle exploring service assessment: Fee could cover police, maintenance
The Plain Dealer, November 21, 2006
Faced with rapid growth, University Circle leaders will study new ways to fund safety and cleanup efforts in Cleveland's medical, cultural and educational mecca. University Circle institutions, including University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University, pay voluntary assessments now that fund a $2.3 million annual budget for police. Read article.
November 13, 2006
Ohio's now a leader in fuel cells
The Plain Dealer, November 12, 2006
UltraCell Corp. of Livermore, Calif., plans to invest $74 million to build a factory near Dayton that will hire 360 people over the next four years and create more jobs for Ohio-based suppliers. The project has received grants, loans and tax breaks. The company is working with the University of Dayton and Case Western Reserve University. Read article.
Researchers relinking brain, paralyzed limbs
The Plain Dealer, November 12, 2006
In a sunny Case Western Reserve University lab, the 49-year-old Emma Freeman eases her wheelchair to an array of video screens. One displays the ghostly image of a disembodied right arm and hand, hanging motionless against a black background. A cable snakes from underneath her shirt, connecting Emma to the computer. Functional electrical stimulation (FES), the technology driving Emma's arm, is not new. Scientists at the Cleveland FES Center, a consortium of Case, MetroHealth Medical Center and the Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, have used various forms of stimulation to trigger muscles involved in bowel and bladder control, hand grasping and sitting upright. Read article.
November 10, 2006
Strings attached
The Plain Dealer, November 9, 2006
Take a fine violinist. Connect electrodes to her fingers, arms and shoulders. Have her play classical pieces. Record her muscle activity and transmit the readings to a laptop. "The higher the peaks and the faster the frequency, the more the muscles are working," said Katie Polafek, graduate research assistant at the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center. The project's coolness extends from the Cavani and FES Center—a research consortium of the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University—to CleveMed, which develops wireless monitoring systems for neurology and rehabilitation applications. Read article.