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Multiracial patients in need of marrow transplants face steep odds, but one family has launched a global campaign to raise awareness and save their son's life

African-Americans are less likely than whites to receive hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HCT) (MedPage Today) -- an expensive procedure that can greatly increase survival for cancers of the blood, a new study found.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bone marrow transplants are undergoing a quiet revolution: No longer just for cancer, research is under way to ease the risks so they can target more people with diseases from sickle cell to deadly metabolic disorders....

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have identified childhood cancer survivors who are at increased risk for deteriorating lung health, in part due to the lifesaving bone marrow transplants they underwent years earlier.

(University of Michigan Health System) University of Michigan researchers have identified the first biomarker of graft-versus-host disease of the skin.

The discovery makes possible a simple blood test that should solve a treatment dilemma facing doctors with patients who frequently develop rashes after bone marrow transplants.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.

The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene....