Mayo Clinic Minute: Bone marrow donor diversity is needed
Bone marrow transplants are procedures that infuse healthy blood stem cells into your body to replace damaged or diseased bone marrow. Just like people in need of solid organ transplants, such as hearts or kidneys, people in need of a bone marrow transplant have to find a matching donor. Dr. Ernesto Ayala, a Mayo Clinic hematologist and oncologist, says bone marrow donations from people of all races and ethnicities are essential in order to help… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - July 13, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
UAB launches partnership with entity to offer life-saving service
People who need a bone marrow transplant are getting a boost locally with a new partnership between two entities. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - July 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Laurel Thrailkill Source Type: news
Jon Batiste privately married Suleika Jaouad before her bone marrow transplant
Jon Batiste revealed he recently married his longtime girlfriend Suleika Jaouad. #bonemarrowtransplant #suleikajaouad #jonbatiste (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Grammy winner Jon Batiste secretly married his partner Suleika Jaouad in February
The singer, 35, and the author exchanged vows the day before Suleika was admitted to hospital to undergo a bone marrow transplant after being diagnosed with leukemia for second time. #jonbatiste #suleikajaouad (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: First Case of HIV Cure in a Woman After Stem Cell Transplantation Reported At CROI-2022
[WHO] The International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network (IMPAACT) P1107 reported the first case of HIV cure in a woman living with HIV submitted to a dual stem cell transplant (i.e., an umbilical cord blood transplant combined with a half-matched bone marrow transplant) for treatment of an acute myelogenous leukemia. The IMPAACT P1107 researchers presented the case details during the oral abstract session held at the 29th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 202 (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - April 4, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Woman Seemingly Cured of HIV After Umbilical Cord Transplant
Umbilical cord blood may be a good alternative to bone marrow transplants for treating HIV in patients with HIV and cancer. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - February 16, 2022 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Third Person Living With HIV Has Been Cured by Transplant
Before now, only two people, both men, had been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplant. This is the first case of a woman, and someone cured using cord blood instead of bone marrow transplant. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - February 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Third Person Living With HIV Has Been Cured by Transplant A Third Person Living With HIV Has Been Cured by Transplant
Before now, only two people, both men, had been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplant. This is the first case of a woman, and someone cured using cord blood instead of bone marrow transplant.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 15, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: HIV/AIDS News Source Type: news
Consumer Health: The gift of bone marrow transplantation
In this season of celebrating and gift-giving, you could have the chance to give someone the gift of a second chance at life. Each year, approximately 18,000 people in the U.S. under 74 are diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses for which a bone marrow transplant or an umbilical cord blood transplant are their best treatment options, according to the Health Resources& Services Administration. A bone marrow transplant, also called a stem cell transplant, is a… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - December 23, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
UCLA gene therapy gives new life to girl born with fatal immune disorder
In every visible way, Marley Gaskins is an average 12-year-old — she enjoys painting, playing online games like Roblox with her friends and taking ukulele lessons. But until recently, her life was far from normal.Marley was born with a one-in-a-million genetic disorder called leukocyte adhesion deficiency-1, or LAD-1, which cripples the immune system and results in recurring infections, coupled with slow wound healing.“She started getting what looked like ant bites on her skin when she turned 1,” said Marley’s mother, Tamara Hogue. “When she was 3, she got a really big skin abscess on her stomach that landed her ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 17, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Tanzania: New Milestone in Bone Marrow Transplant
[Daily News] MUHIMBILI National Hospital is looking to conduct bone marrow transplants to six patients every month following a successful infusion of the healthy blood-forming stem cells to five patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 16, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
New Data from CARTITUDE-1 Study Show Continued Deep and Durable Responses of Ciltacabtagene Autoleucel (cilta-cel) in Treatment of Heavily Pretreated Patients with Multiple Myeloma
ATLANTA, Ga., December 12, 2021 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today longer-term results from the Phase 1b/2 CARTITUDE-1 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel), an investigational B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy administered as a single infusion, in the treatment of patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma. The data, featured as an oral presentation at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2021 Annual Meeting (Abstract #549) and selected as part of the Highli...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - December 12, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Innovation Source Type: news
A decade after gene therapy, children born with deadly immune disorder remain healthy
Over a decade ago, UCLA physician-scientists began using a pioneering gene therapy they developed to treat children born with a rare and deadly immune system disorder.They now report that the effects of the therapy appear to be long-lasting, with 90% of patients who received the treatment eight to 11 years ago still disease-free.ADA-SCID, oradenosine deaminase –deficient severe combined immunodeficiency, is caused by mutations in the gene that creates the ADA enzyme, which is essential to a functioning immune system. For babies with the disease, exposure to everyday germs can be fatal, and if untreated, most will die wit...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 15, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Sharing Mayo Clinic: Diversity in bone marrow transplantation is gift of life for their mom
Only 20% of minorities are able to find a match when they require a transplant. But for one African American mom of five, finding that match meant the gift of life. _______________________________ Family is everything to Felicia Curtis. Family is the reason the mother of five from Gainesville, Florida, knew she had to fight when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2017. She was 20 weeks pregnant with her youngest child. Over the next several months,… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 26, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Bone marrow transplant patients living longer, healthier, study finds
Bone marrow transplant recipients in the 2000s and 2010s are living longer, and with better overall health, than those who underwent the complex procedure in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a JAMA Oncology study found. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - September 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
