Lymphoma News TodayImmunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host diseaseScience DailyAbatacept, when added to the standard drug regimen used to prevent GvHD, reduced the occurrence of acute, grade III-IV GvHD from 32 to 3 percent …
Immuno-Oncology NewsIn Phase 2 Trial, Orencia Prevented Graft-Versus-Host Disease After Stem Cell TransplantImmuno-Oncology NewsThe first group included 43 pediatric and adult patients who received four doses of Orencia, along with a calcineurin inhibi…
Arthritis Drug Seen Lowering GvHD RiskMedPage TodayATLANTA — An immunomodulatory drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis dramatically reduced the incidence of acute graft versus host disease (GvHD) in patients undergoing HLA-mismatched unrelated donor …
Arthritis Drug Seen Lowering GvHD RiskMedPage TodayATLANTA — An immunomodulatory drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis dramatically reduced the incidence of acute graft versus host disease (GvHD) in patients undergoing HLA-mismatched unrelated donor …
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Gene therapy improves immunity in babies with ‘bubble boy’ disease
Science Daily More than 80 percent of XSCID patients, including the infants in this study, do not have matched sibling donors. These patients must rely on unrelated donors or parent donors, who are partial genetic matches. Such transplants are less likely to fully … |
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Gene therapy improves immunity in babies with ‘bubble boy’ disease
Science Daily More than 80 percent of XSCID patients, including the infants in this study, do not have matched sibling donors. These patients must rely on unrelated donors or parent donors, who are partial genetic matches. Such transplants are less likely to fully … |
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Doctors: Over a year to see if uterus transplant successful | Health …
The Philadelphia Tribune DALLAS — It took well over a year to determine if a woman who received a womb transplant would become the first in the U.S. to give birth, transplant surgeons. |
Economics21Copy the New Zealand Model to Compensate Organ DonorsEconomics21In 2006 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a program to help living donors reduce financial disincentives to donation, awarding a grant to help fund the …
OncLiveMost Patients in Need of HCT Can Now Get TransplantsOncLiveOverall survival and disease-free survival (DFS) are now similar in MSD and MUD recipients.3 More recently, the use of mismatched unrelated transplant, defined as high-resolution DNA mat…
OncLiveMost Patients in Need of HCT Can Now Get TransplantsOncLiveOverall survival and disease-free survival (DFS) are now similar in MSD and MUD recipients.3 More recently, the use of mismatched unrelated transplant, defined as high-resolution DNA mat…