Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia announced that it will host a bone marrow donation drive to help find a donor match for NAPA anesthesiologist, James Robins, MD, who is ...
What are blood and bone marrow transplants and stem cell transplants? Bone marrow transplants (BMTs) and peripheral blood stem cell transplants (PBSCTs) are procedures that restore or replace ...
Life-saving stem cell transplants have been limited by the need to perfectly match the blood types of donors and recipients, ...
Dr. David Karli, his tech Mariah, and an anesthesiologist named Adriana were all hovering over me. Soon, I’d be taking a deep nap while Karli and Mariah drilled into my hips to extract bone marrow, ...
March 6 -- In the first operation of its kind, doctors used stem cells from a 16-year-old Almont, Mich., boy's own blood to repair his heart after he was accidentally shot in the heart with a nail gun ...
After surviving a rare form of bone marrow cancer and treatment, Damon Young got to meet the man who helped save his life. But Young, who lives in Oak Lawn, wasn’t the only one feeling a sense of deep ...
Sharing gifts is a favorite way to sustain connection across peoples and cultures worldwide, but with bone marrow donation the gift-giving act is accompanied by uncomfortable side effects to the donor ...
WESTFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey high school principal who had agreed to donate bone marrow to a 14-year-old stranger in France has died, weeks after he lapsed into a coma during the procedure, his ...
Tonight, local rapper Kusha Tarantino will host a jam-packed hip-hop bill at Fitzgerald’s. When James Courtney first pitched me an article about the show, I wrote back “fastest way to my heart!” ...
PARK RIDGE, Ill. (WLS) -- A bone marrow transplant saved his life, and now a young man is turning into a superhero in the hopes of inspiring others to give a selfless gift. Jack Timperley has a lot to ...
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Service members, their families and civilian employees at this airlift hub in western Tokyo are enrolling this week in a bone marrow registry that could potentially save a ...