Veterans Exposed To Contaminated Water At Marine Base To Receive Disability Benefits
WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - The Obama administration has agreed to provide disability benefits to military veterans exposed to contaminated drinking water while at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, according to an official notice published on Thursday.
Veterans, former reservists and former National Guard members who served for at least 30 days at the U.S. Marine Corps Base from 1953 to 1987 and have been diagnosed with one of eight diseases are eligible, according to the document published in the Federal Register, the government’s official journal.
The Associated Press, which first reported the story, said the esti...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
VA ’s Rule Establishes a Presumption of Service Connection for Diseases Associated with Exposure to Contaminants in the Water Supply at Camp Lejeune
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has established a presumption of service connection for eight diseases that may be associated with exposure to contamination in the water supply at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from August 1, 1953 to December 31, 1987. This will make it easier for veterans to receive the care and benefits they need. The eight diseases are adult leukemia, aplastic anemia and other myelodysplatic syndromes, bladder, kidney, or liver cancer, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Parkinson's disease. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - January 13, 2017 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Implants in patients with anemia?
Have any of you installed implants in patients with well controlled, aplastic anemia or hemolytic anemia? (Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts)
Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts - January 10, 2017 Category: Dentistry Authors: osseonews Tags: Clinical Questions Surgical Source Type: news
Chinese herbal treatment shows signs of effectiveness in bone marrow recovery
FINDINGSUCLA researchers have found that a Chinese herbal regimen called TSY-1 (Tianshengyuan-1) increased telomerase activity in normal blood cells but decreased it in cancer cells. Telomerase is an enzyme responsible for the production of telomeres, which play an important role in the regulation of normal cell division. These results indicate that telomerase-based treatments may play an important role in treating both blood cell deficiency and cancer.BACKGROUNDMore than 80 percent of cancers have increased telomerase activity, and other medical conditions are also associated with decreased or abnormal telomerase function...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 14, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Male hormone reverses cell aging in clinical trial
Telomerase, an enzyme naturally found in the human organism, is the closest of all known substances to a "cellular elixir of youth." In a recent study, Brazilian and US researchers show that sex hormones can stimulate production of this enzyme. The strategy was tested in patients with genetic diseases associated with mutations in the gene that codes for telomerase, such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosis. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - July 25, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Male hormone reverses cell aging in clinical trial
( < i > Funda ç ã o de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de S ã o Paulo < /i > ) In a recent study, researchers show that sex hormones can stimulate production of telomerase, an enzyme naturally found in the human organism. The strategy was tested in patients with genetic diseases associated with mutations in the gene that codes for this enzyme, such as aplastic anemia and pulmonary fibrosis. The authors say that the results suggest that the approach can combat the damage caused to the organism by telomerase deficiency. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Regen BioPharma, Inc. Discusses Recent Developments in Aplastic Anemia Therapy and Future Potential Expansion of HemaXellerate
SAN DIEGO, May 11, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Regen BioPharma, Inc., (RGBP), (RGBP) and (RGBPP) announced today that potential market expansion of its HemaXellerate therapy for aplastic anemia is a strategic priority.
The Compan... Biopharmaceuticals, Regenerative MedicineRegen BioPharma, HemaXellerate, aplastic anemia (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - May 11, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
What Are Common Causes of Congenital Aplastic Anemia?
Discussion
Aplastic anemia are disorders where there is inadequate production of erythrocytes, granulocytes and platelets caused by decreased bone marrow production leading to a peripheral blood pancytopenia. Most often it is acquired because of exposures to infections (especially viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus, rubella, herpes, etc.), drugs (e.g. chloramphenicol, chemotherapeutic agents, etc.), toxins or radiation.
Learning Point
The most common congenital bone marrow failure syndromes causing pancytopenia are (in this order) Fanconi anemia, Diamond-Blackfan anemia, and Shwachman-Diamond anemia. Most have a variety of...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - April 17, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Aplastic anemia or dyskeratosis congenita? Unclear diagnosis forces a difficult decision
Having a child diagnosed with a life-threatening illness is heart-wrenching for all parents, but when the diagnosis itself is uncertain, parents can face excruciatingly difficult decisions. This is what Katie and Josh Stevens of Idaho confronted after their son Riley was diagnosed in October 2012 with the blood disorder aplastic anemia, in which the body’s bone marrow produces too few oxygen-carrying red blood cells, too few infection-fighting white blood cells and too few clot-promoting platelets.
He was an 11-year-old skier and runner who was tired, bruised and unable to shake a cold. When his blood was drawn, he becam...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 9, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Irene Sege Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Akiko Shimamura Aplastic anemia Bone marrow Failure Program Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center stem cell transplant Suneet Agarwal Source Type: news
Aplastic Anemia Yields to Promacta (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Response rates rise for first time in 3 decades with oral agent (Source: MedPage Today Meeting Coverage)
Source: MedPage Today Meeting Coverage - December 7, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Sam Kimura embarks on road trip in search to find a bone marrow donor
Sam (left) and Alex (right) Kimura from Louisville, Kentucky, started their journey in January, five years after 23-year-old Sam was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Five years after stem cell transplant complications, he’s an active teenager
Drew at 2014 Be the Match Walk in NYC. His stem cell donor lives in Germany.
“It’s eye-opening to realize how fragile life really is when you’re young.”
Drew D’Auteuil certainly knows whereof he speaks. He is a 16-year-old animal-loving, skiing, rowing, volleyball-playing, honor roll student and licensed driver with braces and a shock of red hair. In April 2010, five months after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat the blood disorder severe aplastic anemia, Drew suffered rare, life-threatening complications.
One day Drew was biking with a friend near his New Hampshire home, suffering little more than a mil...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - November 5, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Irene Sege Tags: All posts Cancer Diseases & conditions Allison O'Neill Aplastic anemia Dana-Farber/ Children's Hospital Cancer Center stem cell transplant Source Type: news
New avenue for combating deterioration in blood stem cells
Using mouse embryos, researchers have replicated the deterioration with aging of blood stem cells, particularly red blood cells, and were able to alleviate the fetal anemia suffered by the mouse embryos and prevent death in 40 percent of the cases. This is a first step towards the development of potential treatments for anemia caused by a deficient activity of these stem cells, such as the aplastic anemia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and radiation therapy. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The CNIO opens up a new avenue for combating the deterioration in blood stem cells
(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (CNIO)) Using mouse embryos, researchers have replicated the deterioration with aging of blood stem cells, particularly red blood cells, and were able to alleviate the fetal anemia suffered by the mouse embryos and prevent death in 40 percent of the cases.This is a first step towards the development of potential treatments for anemia caused by a deficient activity of these stem cells, such as the aplastic anemia in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and radiation therapy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - October 15, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Unstoppable Sisters Traveling To All 50 States To Find Bone Marrow Donors
View More: Live News|More News Videos.cbs-link {color:#4B5054;text-decoration:none; font: normal 12px Arial;}.cbs-link:hover {color:#A7COFF;text-decoration:none; font: normal 12px Arial;}.cbs-pipe {color:#303435;padding: 0 2px;}.cbs-resources {height:24px; background-color:#000; padding: 0 0 0 8px; width: 612px;}.cbs-more {font: normal 12px Arial; color: #4B5054; padding-right:2px;} These two sisters are on a road trip for change. Sam and Alex Kimura are on a cross-country road trip to rally people to join the National Bone Marrow Registry and to find a donor for Sam, CBS News reported. The 22-year-old has severe apla...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 22, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
