Bone Marrow

Stem cell transplant boosts function slightly in Parkinson's monkeys

2012-12-03 10:35:00

In a small but hopeful step for researchers working on therapies to treat Parkinson’s disease, a team in Japan has used stem cells harvested from bone marrow to restore function in monkeys with the debilitating condition. The cell transplants...

'Next Iron Chef' recap: It's an awkward Vegas wedding

2012-12-10 10:41:00

The remaining five contestants on "Next Iron Chef" took a trip to Las Vegas Sunday evening for a Vegas wedding -- of wacky ingredients, of course. For the Chairman's Challenge of fusion, host Alton Brown married ingredients for the chefs: peanut butter...

Nobel winner Joseph Murray dies; performed first successful kidney transplant

2012-11-26 20:17:00

BOSTON — Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham...

E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize

2012-10-23 00:00:00

E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,...

Etta James is terminally ill, live-in doctor says

2011-12-17 16:38:31

Court asked to reconsider ruling on bone marrow compensation

2012-01-18 21:37:51

Dr. Ernest McCulloch dies at 84; he and research partner were first to isolate and identify a stem cell

2011-02-05 21:06:00

Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to bone marrow transplants and eventually to what researchers believe will be a host of treatments for a broad...

Bone marrow transplant 'gets rid of' sickle cell anemia

2009-12-10 00:00:00

Researchers have for the first time performed a successful bone marrow transplant to cure sickle cell disease in adults, a feat that could expand the procedure to more of the 70,000 Americans with the disease -- and possibly some other diseases as well....

'Style Celebration' with 'Desperate Housewives' costume designer Cate Adair will offer jewelry with a heart

2010-11-04 16:32:17

Blowback: Pay bone-marrow donors? Give it a shot

2011-03-04 21:34:50

'Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority'--Federal Judge Roger Vinson on Obama healthcare law

2011-01-31 21:36:47

Treatments for acute radiation syndrome are in development

2011-03-26 06:30:00

Andy Whitfield, star of the cable show "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," died Sept. 11 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 39. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a type of cancer that begins in the lymphatic system, which helps fight infections and diseases that invade the body.

2011-12-15 15:10:54

A stem cell in bone marrow. While some studies have shown that injecting bone marrow cells into the hearts of patients who've suffered heart attacks can improve heart function, a new study published online Monday in JAMA showed that the treatment was not effective when doctors waited two to three

2011-11-14 09:51:11

, Mercy Medical Center announced Monday the state's first public program allowing parents to donate and bank the stem cells from their newborns' umbilical cords.

2010-10-11 00:00:00