A student who was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 16 has credited a "tiny vial of blood" taken from a placenta and ...

From playing Uno to dancing with her sibling, you would never have guessed that just last year, 15-year-old Sabrina Couillard was fighting for her life. "I was getting really skinny. I was getting ...

Patients who receive umbilical cord blood transplants for blood cancers now live equally long regardless of their race, new research from UVA Cancer Center shows. The findings, from UVA Health's Karen ...

SEATTLE — Sept. 7, 2016 — Umbilical cord blood transplants may have advantages beyond offering an alternative stem cell source for leukemia patients without a traditional donor match, according to a ...

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study compared outcomes of leukemia patients receiving bone marrow transplants from 2009-2014, finding that three years post transplant, the incidence of severe ...

Umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) is vital for patients without matched donors, especially racial and ethnic minorities, despite declining usage due to alternative transplant options. Latinx ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Outcomes after haploidentical transplant for severe aplastic anemia have improved significantly with use of post ...

A transplant of stem cells from the umbilical cord has resulted in a mixed-race woman going into remission for HIV for the first time. With any stem cell transplant, recipients can only receive ...

Researchers revealed on Tuesday that an American, described as a middle-aged woman of mixed race, has likely been cured of HIV after undergoing a new transplant procedure using donated umbilical cord ...

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