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 ...
Life-saving stem cell transplants have been limited by the need to perfectly match the blood types of donors and recipients, ...
Thirty years ago at a street fair in Monterey, Calif., Jinah Kim stopped at a booth for the nonprofit group Be the Match, ...
The question came at dinner toward the end of June. Anesthesiologist Nick Mondek, 48, was dying of acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer that affects blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. It was a ...
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, ...
A boy in California may have saved his father from a deadly returning cancer by becoming one of if not the world's youngest ...
Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...