New stem cell treatment uses umbilical cord blood for bone marrow patients
A treatment that uses stem cells from umbilical cord blood could be safe for bone marrow transplant patients, a study says. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - December 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Expanded cord blood shows potential for use in adult bone marrow transplants
(Duke University Medical Center) Umbilical cord blood stem cells that are cultured and expanded outside the body before being used for bone marrow transplant in adult blood cancer patients appear safe and restore blood count recovery faster than standard cord blood. The findings advance efforts to improve cord blood use among adults who have been diagnosed with blood cancers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 4, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Pregnant mother-of-3 desperately searches for bone marrow donor after 30 million failed matches
Susie Rabaca, 36, is a mother of three, pregnant with twins and dying of leukemia. She needs a bone marrow transplant, finding a match is difficult simply because Rabaca is mixed-race. a (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Father, 35, survived cancer as a teenager thanks to his brother's bone marrow transplant
Harry Page, from New Jersey, US, had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was 19 years old and survived thanks to a bone marrow transplant from his brother, Ryan, who then died in 2006. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New research on CAR T cell therapy, bone marrow transplants and blood cancer treatments
(City of Hope) City of Hope announced today that it will present data on new findings on immunotherapies, including CAR T cell therapy, bone marrow transplants and other treatments for blood cancers, at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting Dec. 1-4 in San Diego. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 16, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Duke University Hospital seeking $18.2M renovation
Duke University Health System is asking the state of North Carolina for permission to begin an $18.2 million overhaul on part of its main campus.
This week, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services released an application petitioning for a certificate of need that would allow for the renovations at Duke University Hospital.
According to NCDHHS, the project would renovate the north pavilion at the hospital for the system’s adu lt bone marrow transplant services and a combined hematologic… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - November 15, 2018 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Seth Gulledge Source Type: news
$2.4M bequest: Children's to name part of new building for executive, wife
Cincinnati Children ’s Hospital plans to name the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in the Critical Care Building now under construction in honor of the late Mary and Joseph Stern Jr., who recently left $2.4 million to the medical center.
Mary Stern died in June at age 97. Joseph Stern, who had been president and chairman of U.S. Shoe Corp. as well as a trustee of Cincinnati Children’s, died in 2010 at age 91. At the time he died, the Hematology and Oncology Research Center at the hospital was named… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 31, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Barrett J. Brunsman Source Type: news
Tandem Lung-Bone Marrow Transplant Shows Promise
(MedPage Today) -- Protocol being used in patients with primary immunodeficiencies (Source: MedPage Today Pulmonary)
Source: MedPage Today Pulmonary - October 9, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
Decades later, man meets the UCLA doctor who saved his life
It ’s 1970 and 10-month-old Maurice Elias lay in a hospital bed in the pediatric intensive care unit dangerously malnourished, at just 14 pounds, and with a severe infection in his mouth. The antibiotics that doctors at UCLA had been using to treat Maurice, who had been born without a functional immu ne system, were no longer working.The only way Maurice was going to survive was a bone marrow transplant.“If we couldn't find a way to give Maurice a working immune system, he was going to die. And the only way to do so was with a risky transplant that could be fatal, too,” said Dr. Richard Stiehm, the UCLA doctor who tr...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 19, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Cancer survivor, 11, shares photo of the moment after her bone marrow transplant
Alex Duffin, now 15, underwent an extraction at Connecticut Children's Hospital in September 2014. After nine months in recovery, Emma was given the all clear - and remains in remission four years on. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stowers breakthrough could make stem cells available where bone marrow matches aren't
A new discovery by the Stowers Institute of Medical Research could make more resources available to patients who might not have a bone marrow transplant match available.
In cases where a patient with leukemia or a blood disorder doesn't have a bone marrow match, blood-forming adult stem cells from the umbilical cord can be transplanted. Just 30 percent of patients have a donor match in their family.
However, adult patients need about two cords' worth for treatmen t, meaning there aren't enough available… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 6, 2018 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Elise Reuter Source Type: news
Stowers breakthrough could make stem cells available where bone marrow matches aren't
A new discovery by the Stowers Institute of Medical Research could make more resources available to patients who might not have a bone marrow transplant match available.
In cases where a patient with leukemia or a blood disorder doesn't have a bone marrow match, blood-forming adult stem cells from the umbilical cord can be transplanted. Just 30 percent of patients have a donor match in their family.
However, adult patients need about two cords' worth for treatmen t, meaning there aren't enough available… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - August 6, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Elise Reuter Source Type: news
Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Ups Early Mortality Risk for Decades Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Ups Early Mortality Risk for Decades
Recipients of donor blood or marrow transplants (BMTs) during childhood remain at increased risk of premature death for 25 years or more after the procedure, researchers say.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - August 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medscape Today News Source Type: news
