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Sneezing Season: University Hospitals Case Medical Center Doctor Offers Advice for Summer Allergy Sufferers Midland Daily News: Feeling sniffly this season? Pediatric allergy specialist and assistant professor of pediatrics Leigh Kerns offers two tips for allergy sufferers.

Experts: Sweet's behavior after grandparents' deaths not uncommon Des Moines Register: Youth violence expert Daniel J. Flannery, director of Case Western Reserve’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, comments on how the juvenile mind processes death in the wake of…

Behind the Eyes of Dexter Davis Cleveland Magazine: Dexter Davis has worked as a security guard at the Cleveland Museum of Art for nearly 20 years, and he also is a contemporary artist whose extremely personal paintings sell for thousands. “Clearly, there’s an internal need that his art is…

Psoriasis patients more vulnerable to cardiovascular disease News Track India: Researchers have discovered evidence that psoriasis leads to cardiovascular disease. "This discovery is paradigm shifting. There has been a link between the two diseases but to date we had not been able to show cause,”…

Unintended consequence for dialysis patients as drug rule changes The New York Times: A shift by the federal government in how it pays for drugs to treat dialysis patients could lead to a significant rise in blood transfusions for patients who aren’t getting enough of the medications. “They’ve…

TIME’s breast-feeding cover sparks debate Fox 8: A recent cover of TIME Magazine shows a 26-year-old mother breast-feeding her almost 4-year-old son for an article about attachment parenting. Robert Needlman, associate professor of pediatrics, said the issue is not with the article but rather the…

Pfizer’s arthritis pill backed by U.S. FDA advisory panel Bloomberg Businessweek: An expert advisory panel recommended U.S. regulators approve Pfizer Inc.’s experimental drug to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Though the pill does raise safety concerns, “This is as good as is possible at this stage in…

A shield against chemotherapy Science: By inserting a mutated gene, P140K, into cancer patients, researchers have found a way to protect them from chemotherapy’s side effects and boost their odds of surviving glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive form of brain cancer. Stan Gerson, professor of…

With Lorktech, Case students poised to enter growing flexible electronics market Fresh Water Cleveland: Engineering student Mark Lorkowski and his partners at Lorktech have developed an electronic shelf display that is powered solely by ambient light and can be updated remotely using an integrated…

FDA advisers rebuff Regeneron gout drug Reuters: A panel of outside experts to the FDA, including David Blumenthal, assistant professor of medicine, unanimously voted against an experimental drug to prevent gout flares, based on trials that tested the drug for only 16 weeks. “A lot of the patients…