Video: Portable artificial heart patients spend the holidays at home
An experiential portable artificial heart system is giving patients awaiting transplant surgery some extra time with their families around the holidays. Bigad Shaban reports.
Study reports iron oxide nanoparticles effective for labeling human endothelial cells
( Cell Transplantation Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair ) Researchers found that iron oxide nanoparticles (INOPS) are a useful contrast agent for in vivo magnetic resonance tracking of transplanted human endothelial cells. The impact of …
Preclinical Study Provides Potential Mechanisms for Lower Cardiotoxicity in Patients with Multiply Relapsed or …
SEATTLE, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) today announced the publication of results from a preclinical study of Pixuvri TM (pixantrone) in the The Journal …
Bone marrow transplant saves toddler from life of agony
A four-year-old girl has become the first person in Canada to be cured of an inflammatory bowel disease through a bone-marrow transplant.
Girl home for holidays after bone marrow transplant cures rare mutation
GILLAMS, N.L. – A four-year-old girl is set to spend her first Christmas with her family at home in Newfoundland after becoming the first person in Canada to be cured of inflammatory bowel disease through a bone marrow transplant.
Vorinostat reduces risk of graft-vs.-host disease from bone marrow transplant treatments
A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according to a study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
New drug halves transplant's deadly side-effect
Washington, Dec 10 (IANS) A new drug halves the risk of serious and often deadly side-effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according to a new finding.
New Research Shows Significant Improvement in Survival for Patients Receiving Unrelated Blood Stem Cell Transplants
Survival rates have increased significantly over the past decade among patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases who received blood stem cell transplants from dono
New stem cell research, transplant strategies show promise to improve outcomes, reduce complications
( American Society of Hematology ) Studies of stem cell biology and transplant approaches presented today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology illustrate how the use of advanced modeling techniques is optimizing stem cells t…
New Drug Cuts Risk of Deadly Transplant Side Effect in Half
A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according to a study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.