Despite the safety and simplicity, myths prevail in India—fuelled mostly by a lack of awareness and cultural resistance to ...

Bone marrow transplants, while commonly known for treating cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, are also surprisingly used to treat various other conditions, including some genetic and autoimmune ...

It is one hour at a time for Gladicy Mbeyu, a sickle cell warrior who was last year awarded a state commendation for helping ...

In this report, VINCENT KURAUN explores the groundbreaking strategies for managing sickle cell disease, with a particular ... such as allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, are becoming more ...

It so happens there is such a procedure for sickle cell anemia — a bone marrow transplant. A study published last July in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that 26 of 30 ...

But instead, he had become so weak from sickle cell anemia that he had to be ... s only chance of a permanent cure was through a bone-marrow transplant, but he was never matched with a donor ...

He said the teen was a good candidate for the new therapy because he didn’t have a match for a bone marrow transplant. Sickle cell occurs when a child inherits the genetic marker from both.

A new bone marrow transplant method can help cure sickle cell disease and is more accessible than highly expensive gene therapies for the disease, researchers say. Sickle cell disease is a genetic ...

A bone marrow transplant process is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial completed at about 20 cancer centers. A bone marrow transplant process co ...

A bone marrow transplant process co-developed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is safe and curative for adults with sickle cell disease, according to results of a trial ...

A novel reduced-intensity haploidentical bone marrow transplant has shown high success in curing sickle cell disease in adults, with 95% survival and 88% cure rates two years post-transplant.