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Case Western Reserve University researchers are behind a promising new tool for detecting a serious blood disorder. Early detection is key in fighting sickle cell disease, an inherited blood abnormality that can be fatal. The new test, called Gazelle, makes a quick diagnosis using artificial intelligence and microchip technology. CWRU researcher Dr. Umut Gurkan led studies into the technology in 2014 and said the key is its accessibility.

Cuyahoga County is reporting a total of nine confirmed cases and two suspected cases at its jail, as of Monday afternoon. The increase comes three days after the first six confirmed cases were reported. According to a county spokesperson, all 11 inmates are in isolation and receiving medical care from MetroHealth System staff.

Coronavirus testing kits are set to arrive in Ohio in a few days and should be ready to test Ohioans for coronavirus, also called COVID-19, by next week. The current process is for hospitals to send potential coronavirus samples to the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), which then sends the samples to one of two out-of-state labs run by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That process takes five to seven days.

The Summit County Jail is making preparations in the event of a coronavirus outbreak – but does not currently have anywhere to safely house infected or potentially infected inmates. One inmate was suspected of having the coronavirus and was sent to a local hospital, where a doctor declined a test after and examination, according to Bill Holland at the Summit County Sheriff’s Department, which is responsible for the jail. The inmate was sent back to the jail.

Cleveland City Council’s Health and Human Services Committee met Monday to pass a resolution declaring racism as an issue of public health. The resolution was introduced earlier this year as a way to support and promote policies to address infant mortality and access to health care, as well as seek solutions to racial health disparities.

Once a summer for the past decade, 30 bands play free concerts from porches of homes and businesses throughout Cleveland’s Larchmere neighborhood. While organizers of Larchmere Porchfest have not increased the number of bands on the schedule, the event has grown in attendance from hundreds to thousands of people. This year they are preparing for a crowd of 10,000 on Saturday, according to Dawn Arrington, Larchmere Porchfest’s president and board member.

The Regional Transit Authority is one step closer to putting a measure on this fall's ballot that would help fund the county's ailing transit system. During a Tuesday meeting of the RTA Board, transit advocates from the group Clevelanders for Public Transit called on the agency to put a tax levy before voters this November.

A federal judge won’t grant news organizations access to drug sales data that’s part of the nationwide lawsuit over the opioid crisis. Judge Dan Polster had ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration to turn over records of opioid sales to local governments and the drug companies they’re suing. He approved a protective order limiting who could see the information. The Washington Post filed public records requests for the data with Cuyahoga and Summit Counties. HD Media, which owns newspapers in West Virginia, requested data from a county in that state.

Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro is promising to take "immediate" action to improve conditions at the Summit County jail. The reforms were recommended by a commission following the death of an inmate last year.

Federal prosecutors say the former head of Cleveland’s demolition bureau accepted bribes from contractors in exchange for help obtaining work with the city. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio charged Rufus Taylor with one count of bribery and one count of extortion. Prosecutors allege that he accepted $8,000 from a contractor between 2013 and 2015 in exchange for helping the company get city demolition work. They say Taylor asked for another $12,000 after telling the contractor about an emergency job but never got the money.