bone marrow transplant

(University of Michigan Health System) A University of Michigan Health System-led team of researchers has found a biomarker they believe can help rapidly identify one of the most serious complications in cancer patients after a bone marrow transplant.

Music stars Rihanna and 50 Cent and "Gossip Girl" actress Leighton Meester have lent their mouths to a campaign to find a donor for an upper West Side infant in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant.

Bone marrow transplant centres across Europe are being asked to be on standby to treat Japanese radiation victims should the need arise.

Once again, you just can't make this stuff up.  Here is the New York Times description of new state of the art in recruiting donors for bone marrow transplant.

On its face, it seemed reasonable enough: a bone marrow registry sending recruiters to malls, ballparks and other busy sites to enlist potential donors.

(University of Michigan) Twelve years ago, then 28-year-old graduate student Brian Zikmund-Fisher was forced into the toughest choice of his life: Die from a blood disorder within a few years or endure a bone marrow transplant that could cure him or kill him in weeks.

The parents of a Bronx baby have launched a desperate bid to save their daughter's life after she was diagnosed with a rare blood disease that can only be cured with a bone marrow transplant.

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Experts from the Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center will present new research findings at the 46th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, Illinois.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new research involving UT Southwestern Medical Center and 28 other medical institutions.

(Loyola University Health System) Loyola University Medical Center has received a $2 million matching grant from the Coleman Foundation to renovate the hospital's nationally known bone marrow transplant unit.

(Children's Hospital Boston) Seeking ways to improve blood recovery after chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered that fat cells, which accumulate in bone marrow as people age, inhibit the marrow's ability to produce new blood cells.

Their study, published online June 10 by the journal Nature, suggests that blocking this fatty infiltration could help enhance patients' recovery after transplant.