A benefit dinner will be held April 1 in honour of seven-month-old Madalayna Ducharme. The Warrior Princess fundraiser starts Saturday at 5 p.m.

In Brief Studies are being done on the value of replacing older blood with younger blood via transfusions. Other researchers are studying the effects of a certain protein, osteopontin, on blood cell production. 1000 Ways To Live Forever Society is gradually changing its classification of aging as a natural phenomenon to a disease.

"Dancing With the Stars" pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy has been posting pictures on social media while getting treatment for his calf injury and now he's speaking out for the first time. In exclusive video obtained by "Good Morning America," the past Mirror Ball champ is talking via video to his "DWTS" partner Heather Morris and telling her that he does not intend to lose this season. Chmerkovskiy sat out Monday's show and Morris was paired up with pro stand-in Alan Bersten

Alexes Harris tells KUOW's Katherine Banwell her story. When ProfessorAlexes Harris learned she had a rare form of leukemia, she knew she was in a fight for her life. But she didn't realize how difficult it would be to find a bone marrow match as a woman of color.

Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill put some distance between himself and his spring of discontent Friday night, while Angels right-hander Garrett Richards put the finishing touches on his spring time of renewal. Hill allowed four hits in 3 2/3 scoreless innings in a 3-1 exhibition victory at Angel Stadium, striking out two and walking one, a marked contrast from the 8.03 earned-run average he posted in five Cactus League starts, when he walked 14 and struck out 13 in 12 1/3 innings.

Since the earliest days of modern cancer care, the scientific community has waged a war against the ravages of this disease on multiple fronts. We've sought to increase survival for patients through prevention and early detection.

Having someone elses marrow or stem cells is called a donor transplant, or an allogeneic transplant. This is pronounced a-low-gen-ay-ik. The donors bone marrow cells must match your own as closely as possible.

JEROMESVILLE Heidi Steiber was 27 years old when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

Adelaide woman Kate Rafertys son just started school, her daughter is two. She doesnt like to speak about it with her doctors, but she may not get the chance to see them grow up.

BRADENTON, Fla. By now, the time line for recovery from Tommy John surgery is familiar even to the casual baseball fan

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Friday, March 31, 2017 By Nicholas Snow The Rose Mercadante Chemistry Seminar Series is pleased to present a seminar entitled "Improving Blood and Marrow Transplantation" by Dr.

After a baby is born and the umbilical cord is cut, ever wonder where that umbilical cord ends up? Most of the time, it becomes waste but that cord still has some valuable resources that can save a life. The blood that is found in it is called umbilical cord blood or cord blood for short

Close The National Bone Marrow registry took place in the Bluestem Room last Friday. This donor drive was hosted by Love Your Melon and Cardinal Key, with Gail Chism and Mary Kelly acting as representatives from Be The Match as well. On average, one person in 430 is called to donate, but the likelihood of being called also depends on the race of the donor.

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- With an upcoming permanent change of station, Maj. Mathew Carter, a Jeanne M

March 27, 2017 07:02 ET | Source: Cellect Biotechnology Ltd. Cellects technology, ApoGraft, aims to become a game changerin stem cells transplantations for cancer treatments Company gets green light from DSMB Board for enrolling additional 2 cancer patients for ApoGraft transplantation treatments TEL AVIV, Israel, March 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellect Biotechnology Ltd

Image Text: APPEAL: Delroy Anglin, star of TV's 'Cant' Pay? We'll Take it Away!' (photo credit: DCBL) DELROY ANGLIN, a star bailiff of the TV series, 'Cant Pay? Well Take it Away!' has launched an appeal to encourage more African and Caribbean people living in the UK to join the Stem Cell Register.

FINDINGS UCLA researchers have developed a stem cell gene therapy cure for babies born with adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency, a rare and life-threatening condition that can be fatal within the first year of life if left untreated. In a phase 2 clinical trial led by Dr. Donald Kohn of theEli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Researchat UCLA, all nine babies were cured

In the United States alone, more than 400,000 lumbar discectomies and 500,000 spinal fusions are performed each year for symptoms related to lumbar disc degeneration. The ability to get these to heal without surgery has been a long-term goal of many patients and physicians alike. The Spine Center continues to be on the forefront of treatment options and is proud to offer stem cell therapy treatments for patients as part of our comprehensive non-operative treatment options.

Id like to believe that our lives have meaning, that the day-to-day decisions we make steer our steps down a variety of roads in life. As in the poem by Robert Frost, moving in one direction can leave us wondering about what would have happened had we taken the other road.