News tagged with marrow failure

Ontario's first cardiac stem cell transplant performed last week

Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New findings about the way cells work could lead to a test and therapy for kidney failure caused by E. coli

Ever since the water supply in Walkerton, Ont., was contaminated by E. coli in 2000, Dr. Philip Marsden has been trying to figure out just how a toxin released by that particular strain of the bacteria causes kidney damage ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Towards more effective treatment for multiple myeloma

A new study from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, shows that MAL3-101, a recently developed inhibitor of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), appears to have potent anti-tumor effects on multiple myeloma, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bone marrow and blood stem cell transplant survival rates equal, when donor is unrelated to patient

Patients who receive a blood stem cell transplant from a donor outside of their family to treat leukemia and other blood diseases are more likely to have graft failure but less likely to experience graft-versus-host disease, ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results triple researchers' projections with use of adult stem cells for heart failure

Patients suffering from heart failure due to a previous myocardial infarction showed an average of 12 percent improvement one year following an investigative treatment that involved infusing them with their ...

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created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Delayed stem cell therapy following heart attack is safe but not effective

NIH-funded trial shows that therapy with bone-marrow derived cells does not improve heart function after six months; future clinical benefits still possible.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover gene defect that predisposes people to leukemia

A new genetic defect that predisposes people to acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplasia has been discovered. The mutations were found in the GATA2 gene. Among its several regulatory roles, the gene acts ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Standard aplastic anemia therapy improves patient outcomes better than newer version

A comparison clinical study of two aplastic anemia treatments found that ATGAM, currently the only licensed aplastic anemia drug in the United States, improved blood cell counts and survival significantly more than did Thymoglobulin, ...

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created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New evidence of the benefits of home dialysis for kidney patients

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have found more evidence of the benefits of home dialysis for patients with kidney failure.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of stem cell diseases advanced by new technique

A rare genetic disease called dyskeratosis congenita, caused by the rapid shortening of telomeres (protective caps on the ends of chromosomes), can be mimicked through the study of undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First U.S. patient enrolled in stem cell transplantation/cardiac bypass study aimed at improving heart failure

A 59-year-old Houston man became the first individual in the United States to enroll in a study using stem cell transplantation during cardiac bypass to treat severe heart failure.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Key cause of bone marrow failure identified

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers funded by Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and the Medical Research Council (MRC) have identified one of the first steps that can cause bone marrow failure and eventually lead to blood cancers. ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bone marrow cells may significantly reduce risk of second heart attack

Cells from heart attack survivors' own bone marrow reduced the risk of death or another heart attack when they were infused into the affected artery after successful stent placement, according to research reported in the ...

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mice regain ability to extend telomeres suggesting potential for dyskeratosis congenita therapy

The human genetic disease dyskeratosis congenita (DKC) is an autosomal dominant disease that leads to abnormalities in tissues with a rapid cell turnover - the skin, nails, bone marrow, lungs and gut. Patients with DKC experience ...

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Early heart attack therapy with bone marrow extract improves cardiac function

A UCSF study for the treatment of heart failure after heart attack found that the extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for improving cardiac function, decreasing the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0