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The Cleveland Clinic developed an equation that takes into account time spent waiting for lung transplant and other factors, which when tested, flagged those most likely to die while waiting for donor lungs.
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Case Western Reserve University Medical School is drawing on a $56 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a collaboration with local hospitals to build trust and engagement.
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This is the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that the Clinic has had an optional policy on masking. Officials say the decision comes as respiratory virus numbers are improving.
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MetroHealth was the first healthcare system in Cleveland to require the shot for staff back in October, and hospital officials told Ideastream Public Media on Thursday that 11 employees have been terminated for refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate.
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The omicron variant, first confirmed in a Cleveland Clinic lab earlier this week, is now accounting for about half of new COVID-19 cases at Cleveland Clinic. The hospital system is expecting to see its highest percentage of positive COVID-19 tests since the pandemic began, officials said in a news release on Friday.
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The first two systems were successfully implanted last week.
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About one-third of Americans are considered obese, and experts say health conditions caused by obesity, such as fatty liver disease, are rising at an alarming rate. But, there is insufficient research about therapies for this disease and no drugs federally approved to treat it. A new Cleveland Clinic study has found one treatment to be highly effective: bariatric weight loss surgery.
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Updated: 4:50 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021 There are currently no approved vaccines for breast cancer, which affects 1 in 8 women. But clinical trials have now begun to test one developed right here in Cleveland that targets an aggressive form of the disease. Cleveland Clinic researchers have launched a clinical trial testing a first-of-its-kind vaccine that could prevent triple-negative breast cancer - the most lethal form of the disease, officials said in a press release Tuesday.
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Ebola became a major health concern in northeast Ohio Wednesday after it was discovered that a nurse who traveled to northeast Ohio has the deadly virus.…