New research has shown the presence of a disease affecting small blood vessels, known as microangiopathy, in the bone marrow of diabetic patients. While it is well known that microangiopathy is the cause of renal damage, blindness and heart attacks in patients with diabetes, this is the first...
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have found that a blood vessel-building gene boosts the ability of human bone marrow stem cells to sustain pancreatic recovery in a laboratory mouse model of insulin-dependent diabetes. The findings, published in a PLOS ONE...
Two men with longstanding HIV infections no longer have detectable HIV in their blood cells following bone marrow transplants. The virus was easily detected in blood lymphocytes of both men prior to their transplants but became undetectable by eight months post-transplant. The men, who were...
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Maryland report promising results from using adult stem cells from bone marrow in mice to help create tissue cells of other organs, such as the heart, brain and pancreas - a scientific step they hope may lead to potential new ways to replace...
An appeals court ruled yesterday that most bone marrow donors can be paid, overturning decades-old government policy in which such compensation was a crime punishable by up to five years in prison. It's about time. Paying for bone marrow will hopefully attract more donors—which could save more...
Stromal cells, as distinct from hematopoietic cells, are an essential component of the bone marrow microenvironment and are necessary for the long-term maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in vitro. Previous studies have shown that stromal cells regulate the proliferation and...
The ability to produce neuroprotectors, proteins that protect the human brain against neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and ALS, is the holy grail of brain research. A technology developed at Tel Aviv University does just that, and it's now out of the lab and in hospitals to begin...
Half-matched bone marrow or stem cell transplants for blood cancer patients have typically been associated with disappointing clinical outcomes. However, a clinical trial conducted at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson testing its unique, two-step half-match procedure has produced some...
Bone marrow transplantation with genetically modified cells may prolong the period of cancer-free survival, suggests a study led by Dr. Vivek Rangnekar, associate director of translational research for the Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky. Bone marrow, a spongy tissue inside...
Although chemotherapy is used to kill cancer cells, it can also have a strong toxic effect on normal cells such as bone marrow and blood cells, often limiting the ability to use and manage the chemotherapy treatment. Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center reported at the annual...
In just six months, Vidacare Corporation's OnControl™ Bone Marrow System hit its first significant growth milestone and is now available in 50 health care centers across the United States. The OnControl System, which commercially launched in March of 2010, is now a part of standard practice...
I am going to give blood on Tuesday and I remember at school they always encouraged us to join up the BBMR so I've read about it and I think I should now that I'm old enough. On the website it says that I should ask when I give blood, but at what point do I ask? When I'm having my iron tested...
Treating non-osteoporotic compression fractures in patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, shows that the use of vertebroplasty - a minimally invasive treatment performed by interventional radiologists using imaging guidance that stabilizes collapsed vertebrae with the injection of...
A family member is having a lot of medical tests done. He recently had a bone marrow biopsy. The report states "diffuse polyclonal reactions to all anti sera" Can anyone tell me what this means? Is it good or bad? Also wht are they looking for when testing this?
problems in the future? I was 17 when it happened and I'm 19 now.
My leg broke in half after falling in the wrong spot. I have a titanium rod in it. 2 bolts near my knee and 2 near my ankle.
Can I ever get this removed. I heard that if anything I should I only get the bolts removed but the rod...
effective? I ran across these two websites: http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/11/26/story11.html
http://www.regenexx.com/back-surgery-alternative/regenexx-lumbar-disc-patient-successes/
and am wondering if these treatments are really effective, and safe, if anyone else has...