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CLEVELAND, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that Mary E. Kerr will become the new dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, effective July 18. She comes to Case Western Reserve after five and a half years as Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Kerr will also be the inaugural holder of the May L. Wykle Endowed Professorship in Nursing. "Mary Kerr possesses the...
The world is composed of multiple languages, cultures, races and religions, but among this diversity our eyes see, it is possible that the world is more united through our ears.In fact Mihailo Antovic, a linguist and visiting researcher at Case Western Reserve University, proposes that our musical conceptualization brings together a world of different people.He found the commonality among children of distinct ethnic backgrounds and languages in his home of Serbia, and he's now testing whether...
A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured water from the moon that shows some parts of the lunar mantle have as much water as the Earth's upper mantle. The research, from Case Western Reserve University, Carnegie Institution for Science, and Brown University, shows 100 times more water than measured before. Scientists discovered water along with volatile elements in lunar magma trapped inside of crystals that are themselves trapped inside tiny volcanic glass beads. The team of...
Just like intelligence agents watching for the real terrorists threatening to attack, monitoring healthcare worker adherence to mandatory hand-washing protocols via hand-washing squads in hospitals can go a long way to stop outbreaks of the opportunistic C. diff bacteria, says Irena Kenneley, an infection prevention and control expert and assistant professor of nursing from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.Kenneley consulted on an analysis of a...
CLEVELAND, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (Rainbow) once again has ranked as one of the best children's hospitals in the country. This year's rankings marks two decades of Rainbow being on this elite list released annually by U.S. News & World Report. For the fourth consecutive year, Rainbow ranked in the Top 5 for the care of newborns by placing #4 in this year's survey. Rainbow also ranked among the top 50 children's...
How useful would it be to anticipate how well someone will control their emotions? To predict how well they might be able to stay calm during stress? To accept critical feedback stoically?Heath A. Demaree, professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University, finds clues in what psychologists call "hot" and "cold" psychology."People differ with regard to how well they can control their emotions, and one factor that predicts it is non-emotional in nature "“ it...
CLEVELAND, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty years ago the Americans with Disabilities Act had at its objective to close the health disparities gap for people with disabilities, but differences still exist. Barring people with limiting physical issues from research studies may be to blame, and researchers from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing want to change that practice. In a commentary for Science Translational Medicine, Ann S....
School of Medicine Study of 48,000 Chinese Residents is Among Largest to Track the Evolution of Disease CLEVELAND, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has signed an unprecedented 10-year research agreement with the Shanghai Zhabei District Health Bureau to study how an increasingly westernized diet and a less active lifestyle are affecting the health of China's residents. Under terms of the agreement, researchers from the School of...
CLEVELAND, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What if the 1994 San Francisco Giants' Matt Williams had gotten the chance to match -- or shatter -- Yankee legend Roger Maris' single-season homerun record? What if San Diego Padres' Tony Gwynn had broken .400? What if the Tribe had made it to the playoffs? We'll never know, of course, because the season was cut short by the 232-day baseball strike that started Aug. 12. It left 655 games unplayed and 14 postponed for the 28 teams in Major...
CLEVELAND, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- University Hospitals (UH) announces the election of Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. as the new Chairman of the UH Board of Directors. Mr. Rankin, who has served on the UH Board of Directors for more than 25 years, is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland-based NACCO Industries Inc. "Al is a lifelong Clevelander who is thoroughly committed to the cultural and economic growth of Northeast Ohio," says Thomas F. Zenty III, CEO of UH. "He is...
