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"Internet Plus" Revives Small Towns in Eastern China

Dec 25, 2015

Zhai Ruiren, a doctor in the Eastern coastal city of Qingdao is treating a patient 1,800 kilometers away via the Internet. The patient, 11-year-old Rinchen from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), ...

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China Donates First Stem Cells to Malaysia

Dec 18, 2015

A Chinese man has donated hemopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to a patient with blood disease in Malaysia. Lu, 22, from south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, signed up to be a stem cell donor with the China Marrow Donor Program (CMDP) ...

Tags: Stem Cells, donor

Blood-Platelet Shortages May Become a Thing of The Past

Aug 14, 2014

Blood-platelet shortages may become a thing of the past, according to scientists at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The researchers have designed an industrial-strength bone marrow bioreactor that can generate human platelets in ...

Tags: Bioreactor, Health, Medicine

Zimmer Issues Five New Patents Directed to The Subchondroplasty Procedure

Feb 26, 2014

Zimmer Holdings has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued five new patents directed to the Subchondroplasty procedure, the innovative new joint preservation procedure developed by Zimmer Knee Creations: US Patent No. ...

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Outcomes for Patients Are Receiving Allogeneic Transplants

Feb 7, 2014

For the fourth consecutive year, outcomes for patients receiving allogeneic transplants through the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have been shown to be significantly better than would be ...

Tags: CIBMTR, RPCI, Blood, Marrow

Dietary Fibre, Such as That Found in Vegetables, May Help Asthma Sufferers

Jan 23, 2014

Dietary fibre, such as that found in vegetables, may help asthma sufferers The ‘Western’ diet may have more to do with the asthma epidemic than has been assumed so far because developing asthma is related to the amount of ...

Tags: health, Dietary Fibre

TB Can Cause Immune Dysfunction and Tissue Damage

Jan 13, 2014

Findings of a preliminary study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine suggest that a patient's own bone-marrow stromal (stem) cells could be used to treat multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively-drug (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). ...

Tags: bone-marrow stromal cells, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

A Patient's Bone Marrow Stem Cells Might Be Used to Treat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Jan 13, 2014

A patient's own bone marrow stem cells might someday be used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, a new study suggests. The phase 1 study to assess the safety of the treatment included 30 patients, aged 21 to 65, with ...

Tags: Stem Cells, Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

A New Combination of Drugs Might Prolong Life in Certain Older Leukemia Patients

Jan 10, 2014

A new combination of drugs might prolong life in certain older leukemia patients, a new study suggests. The research, led by German scientists, included nearly 800 older people (average age 73) who had been diagnosed with chronic ...

Tags: Drug, Drug Combo, Leukemia

Gene Therapy Might Be a Powerful Weapon Against Leukemia and Other Blood Cancers

Dec 26, 2013

Preliminary research shows that gene therapy might one day be a powerful weapon against leukemia and other blood cancers. The experimental treatment coaxed certain blood cells into targeting and destroying cancer cells, according to ...

Tags: gene therapy, leukemia, blood cancer

New Haematology Fish Probes for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Is Launched by Cytocell

Dec 2, 2013

Cytocell announced the availability of a new range of in vitro diagnostic tests to aid in detecting patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL), a cancer of the lymphocytes. In total Cytocell has 19 different FISH probes ...

Tags: Cytocell, Haematology Fish Probes

A Demonstration in Rome by Supporters of Stem-Cell Therapy Snarled Traffic

Nov 27, 2013

A demonstration in Rome by supporters of stem-cell therapy snarled traffic and forced the lower of house of Parliament to shut down Monday. The protesters claim a potential therapy involving the removal of bone-marrow stem cells from a ...

Tags: stem-cell, treatment, demonstration, Rome, snarls, traffic

Antibiotics Are Growing Impotent

Nov 26, 2013

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...

Tags: imagining, post-antibiotics, future

A Compound in Fish Oil Appears to Leukemia Stem Cells and Could Lead to a Cure for Disease

Nov 19, 2013

Scientists from the medical sciences division at Penn State University have discovered that a compound in fish oil appears to target leukemia stem cells and could lead to a cure for the disease. The compound is a natural extract from EPA, ...

Tags: Fish Oil, Food, Health

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals Has Received The US FDA Orphan Drug Designation

Oct 8, 2013

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) orphan drug designation for its altered energy metabolism directed (AEMD) drug candidate 'CPI-613' for treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). MDS is ...

Tags: Orphan Drug, Myelodysplastic Syndrome Drug

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