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Derek Raghavan, who leads Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute, is going to Carolinas HealthCare System in April. Cleveland Clinic issued the following statement: "We are grateful to Dr. Raghavan for his contributions to Cleveland Clinic and for his innovative leadership of the Taussig Cancer Institute during his seven-year tenure. Cleveland Clinic extends its best wishes to Dr. Raghavan in his new endeavor."
The fast track can, over time, take its toll. New research in women finds a high-stress, demanding job with little or no growth potential can raise the risk of heart problems -- including heart attack or stroke, or even early death -- by 40 percent.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Cleveland is already well-known for its high quality medical care. But its reputation is growing elsewhere. Some of the nation’s best and brightest are flocking to University Circle to be on the cutting edge of the biotech innovation. Channel 3’s Maureen Kyle continues our “Brain Gain” series with a look at how this could be […]
Cleveland’s MetroHealth Medical Center is Ohio’s only hospital chosen to participate in the Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium, which will use a $38.6 million federal grant to help wounded soldiers and civilians recover from their injuries. The grant is funded by the Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program of the U.S. Department of Defense Congressionally Directed […]
A nationally-renowned medical researcher will be featured in next month’s issue of GQ Magazine as a Rock Star of Science. Dr. Frank L. Douglas says the honor was unexpected, but “a thrill.” Douglas, 67, is founder and CEO of the Austen BioInnovation Institute of Akron. Since joining ABIA in September 2009, Douglas has led an […]
In a joint statement, the cities of East Cleveland and Cleveland, and the Cleveland Clinic have agreed to review trauma services in Cuyahoga County through discussion rather than through litigation.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
A team of Cleveland Clinic researchers, led by Damir Janigro are developing a blood test that can help predict the seriousness of brain injury by detecting the status of the blood-brain barrier. If a protein (S100B) present only in the brain appears in serum, then the BBB is breached and the patient should be further evaluated. If measured within four hours of the injury, the S100B test accurately predicts which head injury patients will have a traumatic abnormality on a head CT scan.
After a meeting Monday morning with Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove has agreed to delay the closing of Huron Hospital’s Level II Trauma Center in East Cleveland for at least 90 days from today. In a joint statement released Monday afternoon, Fudge and Cosgrove, after meeting with about 30 community and faith leaders […]
The kiosk-based technology, which Lake Health installed inside the lobbies of its two hospitals, features a touch screen interface and a virtual guide that greets visitors and helps them locate physicians, departments and loved ones, as well as hospital amenities, such as the cafeteria, meditation room and family lounges.
Expectant parents are often overwhelmed with information about banking their baby’s umbilical cord blood, but privately banking cord blood can cost thousands of dollars. Now there’s a way to publicly store cord blood for free. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have come up with a kit-based umbilical cord blood donation program. Cord blood contains special […]
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About five years ago, Cleveland Clinic officials wanted to upgrade Huron Hospital's Level II center to a Level I trauma center, but the discussion was stopped "stone cold" by Cuyahoga County commissioners because they were concerned it would take business and patients away from county-owned MetroHealth Medical Center.
Expected fireworks over the proposed shutdown of Huron Hospital’s Level II Trauma Center have been postponed until Friday. A Cleveland Clinic delegation was set to explain the hows and whys of moving trauma operations to a consolidated facility at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights. But the decision has sparked outrage and anger. Some Cleveland councilmen threatened […]
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson wants Cleveland Clinic officials to reconsider the decision the close the Huron Hospital trauma center. EMS Commissioner Ed Eckart told WKYC that closing the Huron Level II trauma center would have a “tsunami-like” effect on EMS ambulance service. Eckart predicted all response times would be greatly increased and that ambulances would […]
Cleveland Clinic's Huron Hospital is losing its trauma center in a move that concerns some East Side residents but that the Clinic says will strengthen the city's healthcare system.
What began as a tiny drop-in clinic for young people's drug-related issues, has grown over 40 years into a vitally important community health resource in Northeast Ohio. As an original employee, Jim Young never dreamed the Free Clinic would last 40 years.