Gut Bugs Signal Success of Bone Marrow Transplant (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Intestinal flora may serve as biomarkers for better survival (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - May 24, 2017 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
South Africa: Athlone Mom Starts Fund for Son's Marrow Transplant
[News24Wire] A Cape Town woman has launched a crowd-funding campaign to help her little boy get a bone marrow transplant overseas, after a local match was not found. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 20, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Engineered tissue could eliminate radiation for bone marrow transplants
Engineered bone with functional marrow. [Image courtesy Varghese lab, UC San Diego]University of California San Diego engineers have created artificial bone tissue that could eliminate the need for radiation before bone marrow transplants.
Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, led a team to develop a bone-like implant to eliminate the pre-treatment radiation that kills stem cells in a patient’s bone marrow to make room for new marrow. The newly engineered bone tissues give donor cells space room to live and grow without having to compete with pre-existing host cells, wh...
Source: Mass Device - May 15, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Danielle Kirsh Tags: Research & Development Stem Cells Transplants bone marrow bone marrow disease MedTech University of California San Diego Source Type: news
New finding affecting immune reconstitution related to B cells
Researchers examined the mechanisms of B cell immune reconstitution in pediatric patients who had undergone bone marrow transplantation and discovered a disruption in the maturation of B cells -- critical to the immune system -- preventing the production of antibodies that fight infection. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: news
New finding affecting immune reconstitution related to B cells
(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Researchers from the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles examined the mechanisms of B cell immune reconstitution in pediatric patients who had undergone bone marrow transplantation and discovered a disruption in the maturation of B cells -- critical to the immune system -- preventing the production of antibodies that fight infection. The results of the study were published in the journal Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation on May 12. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - May 15, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Bone marrow transplants could prevent heart diesease
Researchers from Duke University found stem cell therapy significantly improves exercise time and reduces mortality in people suffering from severe chest pain, known as angina. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Uganda: Bone Marrow Transplant Will Save Two Brothers
[Monitor] Lucas and Louis Masiga look playful in just about every photograph their parents proudly show off. Awesome and loving boys is how their mother Juliet Masiga describes them. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 3, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Moffitt Cancer Center signs partnership with Memorial Healthcare System
Memorial Healthcare System signed an agreement with Moffitt Cancer Center, the state ’s second-largest cancer center, to bring its services to the public Broward County hospitals.
Tampa-based Moffitt will employ five physicians and advanced medical practice professionals, including five nurses, to staff new programs for blood and bone marrow transplantation, and malignant hematol ogy at MHS hospitals. The program will start July 1.
MHS will reimburse Moffitt for the cost of their employees working… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 1, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Brian Bandell Source Type: news
Memorial Healthcare System signs partnership with Moffitt Cancer Center
Memorial Healthcare System signed an agreement with Moffitt Cancer Center, the state ’s second-largest cancer center, to bring its services to the public Broward County hospitals.
Tampa-based Moffitt will employ five physicians and advanced medical practice professionals, including five nurses, to staff new programs for blood and bone marrow transplantation, and malignant hematol ogy at MHS hospitals. The program will start July 1.
MHS will reimburse Moffitt for the cost of their employees working… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - May 1, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Brian Bandell Source Type: news
Ryan Gibson Foundation Gives $500K to the Arkansas Children's Research Institute
The Ryan Gibson Foundation of Dallas awarded on Friday $500,000 for cancer research in the new precision medicine program at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute.
"Precision medicine uses information from a given to design a medical plan for an individual based on his or her environment, lifestyle, health condition and genetic makeup," Greg Kearns, president of the Arkansas Children's Research Institute, said in a news release. "The goal of precision cancer medicine in conditions such as cancer is to customize treatments by tailoring them to the genetic characteristics of not only a patient but in some circumstance...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - April 14, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Pioneering stem cell gene therapy cures infants with bubble baby disease
FINDINGSUCLA researchers have developed a stem cell gene therapy cure for babies born with adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare and life-threatening condition that can be fatal within the first year of life if left untreated.In a phase 2 clinical trial led by Dr. Donald Kohn of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, all nine babies were cured. A 10th trial participant was a teenager at the time of treatment and showed no signs of immune system recovery. Kohn’s treatment method, a stem cell gene therapy that safely restores immune syste...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 27, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Gamida Cell wins additional EMA orphan drug designation for NiCord
Gamida Cell said today that the European Medicines Agency granted its NiCord cell graft an additional orphan drug designation as a treatment for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, or bone marrow transplantation.
The treatment is a graft derived from umbilical cord blood which has been expanded and enriched with stem and progenitor cells, according to the company. The EMA previously granted orphan drug designation to NiCord for acute myeloid leukemia.
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Source: Mass Device - March 23, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Oncology Regulatory/Clearance Stem Cells Wall Street Beat Gamida Cell Source Type: news
The stem cell therapy that could reverse hearing loss
Frequency Therapeutics is betting that it can change the lives of millions of Americans with hearing loss, by triggering the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
Researchers have used cells in regenerative medicine for decades – in 1931, the father of cell therapy, Paul Niehans, treated a patient with material from calf embryos. Although today’s healthcare practitioners have left bovine embryonic cells behind, procedures such as bone marrow transplants are routinely used to replenish a patient’s cells after they’ve been destroyed.
When scientists first derived stem cells in 1981 – a decade after Niehans’s d...
Source: Mass Device - March 23, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Sarah Faulkner Tags: Stem Cells Wall Street Beat Frequency Therapeutics Source Type: news
Genetic Variations Linked to Post-Transplant Outcomes in Leukemia Patients
This video examines research that found that certain genetic variations of both leukemia patients undergoing bone marrow transplant and their unrelated donors were associated with poor outcomes. (Source: CancerNetwork)
Source: CancerNetwork - March 23, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Theresa Hahn, PhD Tags: Videos Hematologic Malignancies Source Type: news
Common Cold Can Be Dangerous After Bone Marrow Transplant
Rhinovirus far more worrisome in those with weakened immune systems, researchers say
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Bone Marrow Transplantation, Common Cold (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - March 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
