A bone marrow transplant, or stem cell transplant, places blood stem cells back into the body. The transplant replaces cells that cancer or treatments have destroyed. People may have a bone marrow ...

Harsh, who hails from a village in Bihar located more than 200 kilometres from the nearest hospital, overcame one of the ...

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African American patient. She had been treated for acute myeloid leukemia once before, but the fast-growing ...

Keith Friedsam reflects on his journey as he prepares to undergo a bone marrow transplant on Nov. 19. A benefit is set for ...

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 ...

What if a blood test could reveal the pace of our aging – and the diseases that may lie ahead? The labs of Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay at the Weizmann Institute of Science have been conducting ...

During the early days of research on bone marrow transplants, the procedure was difficult for patients to endure and had a miserable track record because of thorny complications that many experts had ...

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a blood test that could transform the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma (MM) and its precursor conditions. The new method, known ...

The second-grader who beat leukemia met his bone marrow donor live on "GMA." — -- An 8-year-old cancer survivor met the stranger who donated her bone marrow to him for the very first time on ...