Heart and lung transplant patients celebrate the gift of life
Esteban Jaramillo, 38, received a double lung transplant at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center this past August after both of his lungs collapsed. He had faced health challenges in the past, having undergone a bone marrow transplant 14 years ago, but he didn ’t expect to develop a lung condition as well. Despite these hardships, Jaramillo remained hopeful.“Since I was a kid my grandma told me to have a lot of faith,” he said. “UCLA is a place where miracles of science really happen. I got my life back here.”Jaramillo ’s success story is one of many that were celebrated recently at the UCLA Heart and Lung Transpl...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 17, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
The Case of a Man With Two Sets of DNA Raises More Questions
A crime lab studied a patient ’s response to a bone marrow transplant. Readers requested more information about the perplexing findings. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heather Murphy Tags: Bone Marrow Forensic Science DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Sperm Transplants Coop, Graham Source Type: news
Nigeria: Nigerian Reseacher Flays Promotion of Bone Marrow Transplant for HIV/Aids Cure
[Vanguard] A Nigerian researcher, Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, has frowned at the analytical treatment interruption, otherwise known as bone marrow transplant, being promoted as cure for HIV/AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 12, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
When a DNA Test Says You ’re a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away
After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor ’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - December 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heather Murphy Tags: Forensic Science Genetics and Heredity Bone Marrow DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) Transplants Crime and Criminals Source Type: news
A big step toward curbing graft-vs.-host disease after bone marrow transplant
(Boston Children's Hospital) Children needing a bone marrow transplant often lack a fully matched donor and face a risk of acute, life-threatening graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Now there's reason to hope: An arthritis drug that also can prevent GvHD is getting closer to FDA approval. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 4, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Researchers identify protein that governs human blood stem cell self-renewal
UCLA scientists have discovered a link between a protein and the ability of human blood stem cells to self-renew. In astudy published today in the journal Nature, the team reports that activating the protein causes blood stem cells to self-renew at least twelvefold in laboratory conditions.Multiplying blood stem cells in conditions outside the human body could greatly improve treatment options for blood cancers like leukemia and for many inherited blood diseases.Dr. Hanna Mikkola, a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA and senior author of the study, has studi...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - November 27, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Medical News Today: What to know about bone marrow transplants
Bone marrow transplants help treat certain health issues by replacing damaged blood cells with healthy cells. Here, we look at the types and risks of these transplants, as well as how to prepare and the recovery process. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bones / Orthopedics Source Type: news
For Taunton Children Battling Rare Disease, Flu Season Is Life Or Death
TAUNTON (CBS) – Flu season is here, and for a Taunton family with two babies battling a rare disease, the months are particularly stressful.
From the outside, they appear picture-perfect: Amanda and Billy Bettuchi and their three beautiful kids. But you can’t tell a whole health story just by looking. “It’s Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), so Shane was born with no immune system at all. They have to go through chemo first for 10 days and then they get the bone marrow transplant after that at three months old,” mom Amanda (Acorn) Bettuchi explained.
Sweet Shane, not even a year old, is still recove...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local flu season Juli McDonald Taunton News Source Type: news
Three UCLA scientists receive grants totaling more than $18 million
Three researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have received awards totaling more than $18 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency. The recipients areDr. Sophie Deng, professor of ophthalmology at the UCLA Stein Eye Institute; Yvonne Chen, a UCLA associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics; andDr. Caroline Kuo, a UCLA assistant clinical professor of pediatrics. The awards were announced at a CIRM meeting today.Deng ’s four-year, $10.3 million award will fund a clinical tri...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 31, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Viagra may be the secret to better bone marrow transplants, mouse study finds
A new study from the University of California Santa Cruz gave mice a dose of Viagra followed by an injection of another drug. It helped stem cells detach from bone marrow in just two hours. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Expanded pediatric BMT unit gives children more freedom to move around during treatment and a chance to play
For some kids with cancer and blood disorders, a blood and marrow transplant (BMT), also called a bone marrow transplant, can be their best hope to beat the condition.
Atrium Health’s Levine Children’s Hospital has one of the few dedicated pediatric BMT units in the Southeast, offering both physical and emotional care. The unit treats cancers, as well as non-malignant blood disorders (like sickle cell disease) and immunodeficiencies with survival rates in th e top 10 in the country. And now,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 1, 2019 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Atrium Health Source Type: news
Mother begs people to donate blood as her two-year-old is only being kept alive by transfusions
Steph Davidson's daughter Adeline relies on blood transfusions while she waits for a bone marrow transplant. Adeline, from Scotland, has low levels of platelets and red and white blood cells. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Bone marrow transplants save lives -- more donors are needed
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Who can be a bone marrow donor? What's the process for becoming one? ANSWER: In general, anyone between the ages of 18 and 60 who's in good health can be a bone marrow donor. To be considered, all you need to do is join the national registry of potential donors. People who [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - September 12, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Drug accelerates blood system's recovery after chemotherapy, radiation
A drug developed by UCLA physician-scientists and chemists speeds up the regeneration of mouse and human blood stem cells after exposure to radiation. If the results can be replicated in humans, the compound could help people recover quicker from chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - August 15, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Drug accelerates blood system ’s recovery after chemotherapy, radiation
A drug developed by UCLA physician-scientists and chemists speeds up the regeneration of mouse and human blood stem cells after exposure to radiation. If the results can be replicated in humans, the compound could help people recover quicker from chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants.The study, published in Nature Communications,also sheds light on the basic biology behind blood stem cell regeneration and the role of a specific molecular process that is blocked by the new drug. Blood stem cells reside in the bone marrow and produce all of the body ’s blood and immune cells.“We’re very excited about the ...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - August 14, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
