The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has been awarded $25.5 million by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for continued cancer research and expanded clinical trials. The funding represents a 10 percent increase in NCI funding to the center, the only one of 40 designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation to receive an increase when many National Institutes of Health-related appropriations have been flat or declining. The $25. [click link for full article]

Despite different triggers of disease, all roads lead to lupusSystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s cells and tissues. Although B cells are known to play a role in this disease, the exact way in which their function is disrupted remains poorly understood. [click link for full article]

Non-Suicidal Self-Injury — the deliberate, direct destruction of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent — is a relatively common occurrence for adolescents in high school, a new study suggests. [click link for full article]

There is often mucn confusion regarding the use of “shots” to treat allergic disease. Many patients come to my clinic asking for an “allergy shot”, and are often referring to…

In Germany alone 8 million patients are affected by RLS, which makes it one of the most common neurological diseases. The patients suffer from an urge to move and paresthesia in the legs in the evening and during the night, when they come to rest, which can only be relieved by moving or walking around. The consequence may be severe sleeping disorders, chronic sleep loss and — associated with it — daytime fatigue. In severe cases the disease may lead to depression and social isolation. [click link for full article]

An important clue to how anaesthetics work on the human body has been provided by the discovery of a molecular feature common to both the human brain and the great pond snail nervous system, scientists report. Researchers hope that the discovery of what makes a particular protein in the brain sensitive to anaesthetics could lead to the development of new anaesthetics with fewer side effects. [click link for full article]

An enzyme that cancer cells eliminate, apparently so they can keep proliferating, may hold clues to more targeted, effective cancer treatment, scientists say.In a high-stakes tit for tat, protein kinase G enables healthy cells to stay on task to proliferate, differentiate then provide a useful function. Cancer somehow reduces or eliminates PKG and cells get stuck proliferating. [click link for full article]

The chair of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP) has commended Senate Finance Committee Leaders for working on a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) but expressed concern that funding levels are too low and that pending Medicare cuts are not addressed.Joel S. [click link for full article]

The United Nations launched a $38 million Flash Appeal on 18 July in Geneva to assist hundreds of thousands of people in southwest Pakistan struggling to survive widespread flooding in the aftermath of cyclone Yemyin, which ravaged Balochistan and Sindh in late June. An estimated two and a half million people have been affected by the flooding which followed four days of drenching cyclonic rains leaving 296 people dead, 195 missing and over 377,000 people displaced. [click link for full article]

HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released Emergency Preparedness Atlas: U.S. Nursing Home and Hospital Facilities, which is intended to help local communities identify the health care facilities (hospitals and nursing homes) that could be available and prepared to provide assistance under emergency conditions in their communities. [click link for full article]