The Cleveland Clinic has received a $2.75 million federal grant to study the use of stem cells in treating multiple sclerosis, Crain’s Cleveland Business reported today. The four-year grant from the Department of Defense will fund a 24-patient study to be done by the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, which is made up of investigators from biotech company Athersys Inc., Case Western Reserve University, the Clinic, Ohio State University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
Cleveland Clinic Sports Health recently received a grant of more than $123,000 from NFL Charities to explore treatments for shoulder instability. The football league charity is giving $1.5 million in NFL Charities Medical Research Grants to 11 organizations to support sports-related medical research. This year’s grants include studies on knee biomechanics, artery blockage in retired players and stem cell usage for tendon repair, the NFL said in a statement.
Few places can claim to be as far down the digital medicine road as the Cleveland Clinic, which President Obama has praised for having “one of the best health information technology systems in the country,” according to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. Yet an examination of the hospital’s experience yields both a model and a cautionary tale for the administration’s ambitious plan to spend $45 billion to jump-start a national system of electronic medical records. Clinic doctors say the switch to digital record-keeping has boosted the quality of care. But after nearly a decade and a $100 million investment, cost savings have not materialized, and hospital officials are not certain when they will.
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In a move to reorganize the way it provides patient care, University Hospitals has more closely aligned its two major medical practices consisting of 1,400 physicians, Crain’s Cleveland Business has reported. UH-employed doctors who are part of the UH Medical Group or UH Medical Practices will see those groups operate asUH Physicians Services. The president of the new group is Dr. Michael Nochomovitz. The faculty practice plans in recent years have lost money.
Research from the University of Cincinnati may help patients with corneal scarring recover their vision. Winston Whei-Yang Kao, professor of ophthalmology, along with other researchers in the university’s ophthalmology department found that transplanting human stem cells from umbilical cord blood into mice that lack the protein lumican restored the transparency of cloudy and thin corneas.
On-X Life Technologies Inc. in Austin, Texas, has licensed a system to replace damaged or severed mitral valve chordae in the heart from the Cleveland Clinic. The system was invented by Dr. Marc Gillinov, a staff cardiac surgeon at the Clinic, and Dr. Michael Banbury of Christiana Care’s Center for Heart and Vascular Health in Wilmington, Del. On-X Life Technologies makes the On-X Prosthetic Heart Valve .
