Bone marrow biopsies are performed to check for cancer and other diseases that impact your blood. A bone marrow biopsy is performed by inserting a large needle into your bone, usually your hip bone, ...

During a bone marrow donation procedure, people will have a general or local anesthetic, so they will not feel any pain. After the procedure, someone may experience side effects, such as aches or ...

Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

Julius Dix, 69, will never forget the day doctors told him he had leukemia. "I was also told that it's a terminal illness and I had about three to five years to live," he remembers. Other WRAL Top ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The bone marrow and stem cell transplant program at the Siteman ...

Patients with a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer could soon have their chances of survival doubled as a groundbreaking trial to detect the disease earlier concludes. Scientists working on the ...

Our experts treat adults and children with cancer, as well as non-cancerous conditions of the blood such as low blood counts and myeloproliferative disorders. This program is a partnership between the ...

A series of blood tests, procedures, and imaging tests can help diagnose acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Additionally, these tests can also determine its subtype and help identify the best treatment ...

The U.S. FDA granted Nanjing Iaso Biotherapeutics Co. Ltd. both regenerative medicine advanced therapy and fast track designations for its new drug, BCMA CAR T-cell therapy CT-103A (equecabtagene ...

Effi Barry, the District's former first lady, is expected to begin preparations tomorrow at John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore to undergo a rare medical treatment in her battle against ...

Just days after their laboratories were devastated by an Iranian missile attack, Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay of the Weizmann Institute of Science have published a landmark study that could ...