Myelofibrosis, a disease affecting the bone marrow is caused due to the excessive signaling of vitamin D and immune cells known as macrophages, reveal Japanese researchers. The research publ...
Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are a group of rare but malignant diseases affecting the bone marrow that result in increased production of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platel...
Targeting Sirt-1 shows preclinical promise in controlling graft-vs-host disease (GVHD), report MUSC investigators in Blood. Bone marrow transplant (BMT) offers patients with leuk...
Stem cells that were successfully transplanted dont behave normally as in a healthy person without a bone marrow transplant, found a new USC and Stanford study, conducted in mice. Bone...
New therapeutic drug improved outcomes and survival rates for patients with a serious type of bone marrow cancer. The findings of the study are published in the journal The Lancet Oncology ...
Cleveland Clinic medical hematologist and oncologist Aziz Nazha, M.D. had developed a personalized prediction model that outshined the current prediction models for Myelodysplastic Syndromes...
Breast tumors boost their growth by recruiting stromal cells from the bone marrow. This recruitment process of bone marrow cells reduces the survival rate, but acts as a new target for the t...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco, have identified mutations that cause a rare bone marrow disorder and discovered the condition sometimes...
Malarial parasites may hide in the bone marrow even before the symptoms of malaria are noticed so that they can start the infection when they are undetected, finds a new study. The findings ...
A 57-year-old man, diagnosed with Myeloma has successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGH) in Chennai. For the first time, the surge...
Nikhil, a 25-year-old man, has received the Transfusion-free Life he wanted after a bone marrow transplant. This surgery has come as big relief to Nikhil who has plans to be a father someday...
Elite young athletes are prone to the accumulation of excess fluid in the bone marrow around the joint also known as bone marrow edema, finds a new study. The findings of this study are publ...
A certain type of cell in the bone marrow known as osteocalcin-expressing (Ocn+) osteoblasts, aid in the progression of tumor in patients with early stage lung cancer, reveals a new study....
New study offers preclinical proof-of-concept for the ability of PRO 140, a humanized anti-CCR5 monoclonal antibody under development by CytoDyn Inc., to effectively block the development of...
Bone marrow edema (BME) is common among young athletes. BME occurs more often in the joints of the lower spine or in the the posterior lower ilium of sacroiliac joints, reveals a new study. ...
Bone marrow biopsy and aspiration is the removal of some bone marrow tissue for diagnosis and management of cancers of blood cells and multiple myeloma.
A tibial shaft fracture is an injury that occurs to the tibia, which is one of the long bones of the leg. Causes, symptoms, diagnosis of shinbone are discussed.
Encyclopedia section of medindia explains in brief Introduction To Biopsy
Preferred Term is Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In this stem cell from bone marrow are injected into a recipient after treating them with growth factor.
Animation and slides providing graphic explanation of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Stem Cell Transplantation that is done for leukemia and other blood-related disorders.
Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general information about Leukemia
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