- Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Stem Cell Treatment May Have Cured Child With
Rare Skin Disease

University of Minnesota doctors believe they have hit a “home run” in
using stem cell therapy in a 2-year-old boy's bone marrow by curing him of
a rare disease that had been [...]

- SUNDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — Older adults with type 2
diabetes run much less risk than previously believed of having silent
myocardial ischemia, a restriction of blood flow to the heart, according
to a new study.

In fact, all adults aged 55 to 75 with type 2 diabetes run the same
risk of having a cardiac [...]

- SUNDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — A brain pathway that stops
seizures has been found by Iowa researchers.

Applying modern genetics and molecular biology to clinical
observations made more than 80 years ago, a team from the University of
Iowa and the Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System found that
increased acid (pH) activates an ion [...]

- SUNDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — A drug used to treat multiple
myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells, may also be a treatment for
the chronic autoimmune disease lupus, German researchers report.

The drug, Velcade (bortezomib), which is a proteasome inhibitor, worked
against the disease and prolonged survival in mice with lupus. The finding
could [...]

BURLINGTON, Vt. - The patient talked a mile a minute, hopped off the exam table, paced around and poked through the cupboards when the medical students entered the exam room.
The “patient” had spent hours training how to fake it — in the interest of science. It was “Mania Day” at the University of Vermont’s medical [...]

NEW YORK - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered [...]

A scientist takes a look at a microscope at a nanotechnology laboratory. Relentless evolution towards more intelligent species may have been driven not just by progressively larger brains but by the increasingly complex way in which they were wired, reports a study released Sunday.(AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar)

PARIS (AFP) -
Relentless evolution towards more intelligent species may have been [...]

Mice are seen in their cage in a laboratory. Researchers in the United States said on Sunday they had found the key to a decades-old riddle over epileptic fits, helping to advance the quest for new treatments for this disabling condition.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)

PARIS (AFP) -
Researchers in the United States said on Sunday they had found the [...]

LONDON (Reuters) -
Velcade, a drug used to treat cancer,
might also work against the chronic autoimmune disease lupus,
German researchers said on Sunday.
Velcade was developed by Millennium Pharmaceuticals, a U.S.
biotech company that was bought two months ago by Takeda
Pharmaceutical Co Ltd for $8.8 billion in the biggest overseas
acquisition by a Japanese drugmaker.
The injected medicine is currently given [...]

- SUNDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — The pace of life gets faster
and faster, and people try to cram more and more into every minute of the
day.

As things get more hectic, sleep tends to get short shrift. It's seen
as wasted time, lost forever.

“For healthy people, there's a big temptation to voluntarily restrict
sleep, to stay [...]