Night Read (Ohio): Cleveland Clinic, CWRU researcher finds ‘switch’ that spreads cancer

News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:

Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University dental researcher Ge Jin has found a protein switch that turns on the spread of cancer — the process that often leads to fatal breast, ovarian, pancreatic and colon-rectal cancers, according to a university release.

A 30-year-old program that trains medical residents in internal medicine and pediatrics will be phased out over the next three years and the University Medicine/Pediatrics at One Elizabeth Place clinic, which the residents staff, will close as Premier Health Partners in Dayton shifts funding to other programs, the Dayton Daily News reported.

Hundreds of thousands of Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield members who regularly use the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati could have to find another doctor or hospital, or pay out-of-network rates, starting in April, if Anthem and the alliance can’t resolve a dispute by March 31, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Summit County’s largest employer, Summa Health System, has has a message for smokers: Don’t bother applying for a job until you kick the habit, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

The Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment Center at the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy in Rootstown, Child Guidance & Family Solutions in Akron and Community Support Services, also in Akron, are partnering to offer a comprehensive, team-based treatment program for people who have had a first episode of a psychotic illness, according to a NEOUCOM release.

PR reporter Scott Simon is back on the job after having cervical spinal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, thanks to “the kindness and skill of strangers, who are no longer strangers,” Simon blogged at NPR.org.