Winter 2011
Cover Story
Innovative new programs can reduce the fear, discomfort and helplessness of being a patient. For patients and caregivers, empathy matters.
Features
Nurses, doctors and other medical professionals hone their skills with the help of high-tech mannequins, robots and virtual techniques.
With genetic tests and other new tools in hand, researchers and clinicians are tailoring treatments for people with cancer.
First Word
Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, discusses this demanding and rewarding profession.
Medicine Chest
The Blood Management Program was launched by Cleveland Clinic in October 2009 to conserve available blood supplies and reduce rare transfusion-associated medical risks.
It’s hard to believe that someone without a pulse could live a longer, better life. Yet that’s exactly what happens when a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) takes over for a failing heart.
More than 1,500 sound-alike drugs exist in the U.S. marketplace, and that makes it too easy for patients to accidentally get the wrong medication. Pharmacists and doctors are taking steps to fix that.
This fist-sized power station beats an average of 50 to 100 times per minute and, in that time span, pumps 5 or 6 quarts of oxygen-filled blood to the rest of the body.
A typical doctor’s visit doesn’t allow much time for conversation. But every Saturday morning, Clevelanders can bend a doctor’s ear while walking a 3-mile course around a woodsy reservation.
It takes a lot of repetition to retrain muscle and motor movement after a stroke, but video gaming can make the work fun.
Forget about joining an expensive health club or hiring a personal trainer to lose weight and get in shape. An exercise plan and an emotional support system will do the trick.
Living Healthy
Depression comes in as many shapes and sizes as the people it affects, but there are ways to take control of your mental health.
CC Profile
Douglas Hicks, PhD, Director of the Voice Center at Cleveland Clinic, helps ordinary people and famous performers get their voices back.
Diagnosis Challenge
Itching for no obvious reason. Feeling tired all the time. Alyson Robertson’s odd symptoms piled up for years.
Philanthropia
Philanthropists Robert and Cynthia Schneider of Moreland Hills, Ohio, are champions of Northeast Ohio’s businesses and institutions.
For the Sibleys, older relatives served as a role model for kindness and philanthropy, inspiring them at a young age to make a difference in the lives of others.
Stan Fulton has embraced risk and lived a life of adaptation. Now, he wants to help brain researchers adapt and arrive at a cure for Alzheimer's.
At Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute, medical progress starts with questions. To seek answers, researchers depend on philanthropic support.
On the Horizon
Even a small increase in plaque buildup inside the coronary arteries means bad news for heart patients, according to a recent analysis of six clinical trials by researchers at Cleveland Clinic.
Up to 61 percent of cancer patients taking chemo lose cognitive function during treatment. A researcher intends to find out why.
Researchers say exercise may fend off memory loss for people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
The blood is a barometer of patient health, and a new technique for analyzing blood that gives an accurate — and sometimes surprising — reading of a person’s risk for heart attack or death.
Ask the Experts
Are we ready for a glimpse into our DNA? Two experts discuss the promise and pitfalls of personal genome tests.
My Story
Opera singer Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick didn’t let a double lung transplant and heart valve surgery stop her from singing arias.
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