Study: HIV drug reduces graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplant patientsWestmoreland County TimesAn HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic appears to significantly reduce the dangerous complication graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in blo…
Bradenton HeraldASH 2011 Multiple Myeloma Update – Day Three Morning: Current TherapiesThe Myeloma BeaconDr. San Miguel's colleague Dr. María-Victoria Mateos then presented results from a Spanish trial that was conducted with older, newly diagno…
Transplants With PBSCs Not Better Than Bone MarrowMedscapeDecember 13, 2011 (San Diego, California) — For leukemia and lymphoma patients who require a stem cell transplant but do not have a matched donor, the use of peripheral blood stem cells (PBSCs…
Xenotransplantation: using pigs as organ and tissue donors for humansThe ConversationThis is called xenotransplantation. Humans are primates, so the obvious choice of donor animal for xenotransplantation would appear to be another member of the primate…
Agent discovery could protect against atherosclerosisBarchester HealthcareBone marrow transplantation experiments also indicated that A2bAR bone marrow cell signals alone were not sufficient to elicit this effect. A2bAR is an anti-inflammatory and has …
HIV drug reduces graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplant patients …EurekAlert (press release)(SAN DIEGO) — An HIV drug that redirects immune cell traffic appears to significantly reduce the dangerous complication graft-versus-host disease …
French TribuneOnyx Pharmaceuticals Experience Tumbling of SharesFrench TribuneAn expert from the Department of Medicine, Oncology Division, Bone Marrow Transplantation & Leukemia Section at the Washington University School of Medicine, Ravi Vij, wh…
SunHerald.comSeattle Genetics and Millennium Highlight Pivotal Data on ADCETRIS …PipelineReview.com (press release)ADCETRIS was granted accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in August 2011 for two indications: (1) the treatment …
Science Codex'Twinning' US- based and Rwandan physicians improve lymphoma outcomes in childrenPhysOrg.com… generalist – who are together supervised through phone calls from a US-based pediatric oncologist," says Lehmann, who is clinica…
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Presents Carfilzomib Data at 53rd American Society of …MarketWatch (press release)Prior therapies included alkylating agents, stem cell transplant, thalidomide, lenalidomide and anthracyclines, and bortezomib in the bortezomib-tr…