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Aplastic Anemia News
G-CSF May Improve Outcomes of Patients with Severe Aplastic Anemia
Researchers from Japan have reported that G-CSF (filgrastim, Kirin-Sankyo or lenograstim, Chugai) may improve outcomes of patients with aplastic anemia treated with ATG (anti-thymocyte globulin) and cyclosporine.
Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation after a Reduced-Intensity Treatment Regimen
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have reported a survival rate of almost 50% in adult patients with hematologic disease treated with umbilical cord blood transplantation following a regimen of Fludara® (fludarabine) and 200 cGy of total body irradiation (TBI). The details of this study appeared in an early on-line publication on June 13, 2007 in Blood.
Bone Marrow Donation Difference Between Life And Death
Some donors worry about side effects. With their platelet count down, some might bruise or bleed more easily for awhile. The most common complaints during apheresis are headaches and bone aches, but these go away when the collection is over.
Recent Umbilical Cord Blood Legislation
Under the legislation, the New York State Department of Health will develop a program to inform the public of the potential medical benefits of cord blood preservation. New York is one of the first states to mandate education on umbilical cord blood.
New Program Saves Newborn Stem Cells
A first-of-its kind service called the Newborn Possibilities Program may help provide treatment for the estimated 10,000 babies born in the United States each year with an increased risk of developing a neurological disability.
Family Seeks Bone Marrow Transplant for Norwich Woman With Aplastic Anemia
Ashley is suffering from aplastic anemia, a group of disorders in which the bone marrow fails to produce enough blood cells and may develop into leukemia.
Aplastic Anemia Cancer Gone from Little Girl After Much Prayer
Doctors say a 7-year-old girl in Oregon mysteriously overcame a year-long battle with cancer. They made the discovery just one day before Victoria Roberts was scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant.
Study to Test Patients With Aplastic Anemia
Current published guidelines recommend that patients with aplastic anemia, refractory anemia-myelodysplastic syndromes, and patients with any one of the following -- venous thrombosis involving unusual sites, hemoglobin in the urine, intravascular hemolysis without antibodies, or episodic abdominal or swallowing pain and hemolysis -- should be screened for PNH.
Help For Rare Disease Research
For example, the rare disease aplastic anemia “has been extremely instructive in terms of our understanding of how bone marrow works, where blood is being made, and what stem cells are all about,” said Maciejewski. He added that studies on treatments for aplastic anemia also led to the development of bone marrow transplantation.
Bone Marrow May Be The Only Hope
Bone marrow's the factory that makes blood. It's also where all kinds of mistakes can be fixed. It may even cure some people who have cancer, aplastic anemia or other life-limiting conditions.
Healing by Giving Platelets For Service Member's Wounds
Platelets do not cure diseases, but they do help people with serious illnesses such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, cancer and other diseases, in which, blood is affected.
It's Aplastic Anemia
Imagine being told that you're child has a serious disease. Thankfully, advances in medicine are keeping many children with such diseases, alive. One of this advances, is the bone marrow transplant.
Benzene In Soft Drinks Discovered By State
Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found that the drinks contain concentrations of benzene above the federal limit for drinking water, the letter states. Chronic exposure to benzene is associated with leukemia, aplastic anemia, and other blood diseases, the letter states, adding that children may be especially sensitive to benzene because their bone marrow cells are highly active.
Officers Urge Others To Get Involved For Aplastic Anemia
Bone marrow transplants often are a last resort for people dying from cancers of the blood or the lymphatic system. Bone marrow registries help medical people find compatible bone marrow in healthy volunteers.
Searching for a cure for aplastic anemia
Paul Decker has anaplastic anemia, which means his bone marrow isn't producing enough blood cells. The disease leaves his body starved for oxygen and also puts him at higher risk for infections and uncontrolled bleeding.
Pearl River event collects blood, bone marrow
The National Marrow Donor Program and Jesse's Wish were there to help people join the bone marrow donor registry. Jesse's Wish was started by 14-year-old Jesse Spina of New City, who had Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer.
Friends hold bone marrow drive to help Enfield girl, Windsor father
For Aileen Fearon, 9, and her family of Enfield, finding a bone marrow donor that can cure Aileen of aplastic anemia has been a focal point of their lives for the past six years. Finding a similar donor for Keith Orzechowski, 41, of Windsor has been a driving force in his life and that of his family as he battles leukemia.
Bone-marrow donor sought for 7th-grade girl with aplastic anemia
Doctors diagnosed the 12-year-old girl with aplastic anemia, a rare condition in which the bone marrow stops producing enough red and white blood cells to keep the body healthy. Doctors say she needs a bone-marrow transplant, and since there were no matches in her family, they are asking the community for help.
New Studies on Bone Marrow Failure Diseases
The Bone Marrow Failure Scientific Symposium is presenting the latest advances in aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and other bone marrow failure diseases.
Revlimid approved by the FDA
In clinical trials most patients treated with Revlimid® no longer required transfusions after the first three months of treatment and remained transfusion free for as long as 44 weeks. Revlimid® is a member of a new class of drugs called immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), drugs that can modify or regulate the functioning of the immune system.
Teen With Aplastic Anemia Finds Bone Marrow Match
Aplastic anemia is not a single disease, but a group of closely related disorders characterized by the failure of the bone marrow to produce all three types of blood cells: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
Aplastic Anemia Clinical Trials
Clinical research studies being conducted for patients with aplastic anemia. Thes information is provided to patients as a aplastic anemia resource and not as an endorsement of any treatment, doctor, or medical center.
Hartford-raised man sues for petroleum exposure
According to the complaint, Wright was conceived and born in Hartford in 1982 and lived there until his family moved in 1984. In 1986, he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a blood disorder caused by benzene.
Data from several Vidaza® studies will be presented
Vidaza is the only approved therapy for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and is indicated for the treatment of all five subtypes of the condition.
Kailee Wells is going home for the holidays
Kailee, adopted from an orphanage in China, was diagnosed in January 2002 with severe aplastic anemia. She survived a similar transplant this past January with cells that were not as well-matched.
Pall Systems Play Key Role in Landmark NIH Study on Cord Blood
Cord blood is now widely recognized as an emerging alternative to bone marrow as a viable source of hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells to treat pediatric and adult patients with leukemia, lymphoma, severe aplastic anemia and other lethal diseases of the blood or immune system and certain inherited metabolic diseases.
Shattering a stereotype
His flu turned out to be something entirely different. His red and white blood cells and platelets were all low. After several days of intense testing, he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a potentially fatal bone marrow disorder attacking his immune system.
Principal rides for a cure for Aplastic Anemia
Petner and his family have a personal stake in the fight against cancer. As a young girl, Caroline Petner, now 27, needed a bone marrow transplant from her older sister, Allison, to ward off aplastic anemia.
Tennis champ cheers on children in treatment
K.J. has aplastic anemia, a disease where bone marrow stops making enough blood cells. Since his immune system is still weak and he can easily get infections, he had to listen to Williams from a door cracked open nearby.
Parvovirus may link to rheumatoid arthritis, aplastic anemia
Parvovirus B19 is also known to be associated with adverse effects on fetuses such as hydrops fetalis, aplastic anemia, and intrauterine fetal death. Recently this virus has shown up in tissue from inflamed hearts.
Young lives get a fighting chance with cord blood
Wagner says he actually has twice used children's own cord blood to treat aplastic anemia, "a very rare circumstance." In a third case, though, he says, the cord blood "was so badly stored and tested, I couldn't use it."
Bone marrow screening held for East Greenbush man with aplastic anemia
Dan Adams grew up in East Greenbush and graduated from college and law school. Shortly after he landed his first job with a Boston law he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare blood disorder that often only a bone marrow transplant can cure.
Call for Benzene Ban after Surat Workers Hospitalized
The ban follows media reports that the chemical was causing bone marrow problem in workers. Four workers from a Surat factory have been diagnosed with aplastic anemia, or bone marrow failure, as a result of using benzene.
Tick-Borne Disease
Tick-borne diseases in the United States include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, babesiosis, Colorado tick fever, and relapsing fever. [ This page also contains information on connections between Chloramphenicol and aplastic anemia. ]
A Wagner grad uncovers a deadly dump
WASHINGTON -- While investigating the incidence of disease last year in one of this city's wealthiest neighborhoods, veteran journalist Charles Bermpohl made a startling discovery: Two cases of aplastic anemia, a rare bone marrow disorder, had occurred in a single house over a 20-year period.
IS IT WORTH BANKING YOUR BABY'S CORD BLOOD? Doctors say hard sell of hope is deceptive
Of the estimated 6,000 cord blood transplants worldwide, only 14 have been done using a child's own cord blood. Half of those used samples stored by the three biggest cord blood companies, including four transplants for aplastic anemia, a disease in which the bone marrow stops making enough cells, and two experimental brain injury transplants done by Kurtzberg.
A gift of life gives boy, donor a reason to party
For a year after his bone marrow transplant, Austin McNally and his family did not know who saved his life. And Cory Rose didn't know much about the person he helped, other than it was a boy with aplastic anemia, a noncontagious disease that occurs when the bone marrow stops making enough healthy blood cells.
Life-threatening disease hasn't stopped Vermillion native
And it was determination that pushed Brodersen through the effects of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant for aplastic anemia, a disorder that could have debilitated most careers, but was merely a speed bump for this former four-sport standout.
St. Michael hosts benefit blood drive
The sick resident has multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cell, which is an important part of the immune system that produces antibodies which help fight disease, according to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
Dana-Farber performs transplant 1000
Stem cell transplantation has been used for more than 30 years to treat a variety of cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, and noncancerous conditions, such as aplastic anemia.
GIVING BACK, AT LAST
Miller celebrated her 17th birthday accomplishing a decade-old dream of making her first blood donation at the Central Kentucky Blood Center (CKBC) on June 15, 2005 in Lexington, Ky. Miller received a life-saving bone marrow transplant at age 7 when she was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia.
His cells saved her life from severe aplastic anemia
Transplant survivors from Duke Medical Center's Adult Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplant Program gather each year to share their stories and thank the doctors and staff members who saved their lives.
Rare Bone Disease Fundraiser - son suffers from aplastic anemia
A group of friends held a fundraiser to help a local man with a rare blood disease increase his chances of survival.
Blood bank offers incentives for donors
Every time he looks at his oldest son Langston's picture, Steve Sutcliffe thinks of the transfusions - at least 100 of them - that helped him battle aplastic anemia.
FDA Safety Labeling Changes: Crestor, Diamox Sequels, Femring
The FDA has received rare reports of fatalities due to severe reactions to sulfonamides, including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, anaphylaxis, agranulocytosis, aplastic anemia, and other blood dyscrasias.
It's time to make life affordable
Take the story of Brendan "Boomer" Hewes, 10, of Linthicum, Md. He was diagnosed last June with aplastic anemia, a rare, life-threatening blood disorder that occurs when the bone marrow stops making enough blood cells.
Singh, Jacobsen, Leonard and More in Caddy for A Cure at Barclays
Caddy For A Cure offers the opportunity to caddie for a day in a PGA Tour practice round. Bid through eBay to caddie for Vijay Singh, Peter Jacobsen, Lee Janzen, Justin Leonard or Alex Cjeka and help contribute to a cure!
Sister a life-saving match for boy with aplastic anemia
The Oshkosh is recovering from a bone marrow transplant for aplastic anemia, a serious condition affecting only about two in 1 million people in the United States each year. A bone marrow transplant from his 14-year-old sister on Valentine’s Day likely saved his life.
D'Amico battling cancer in Toronto
The hockey world is coming together to rally around retired NHL linesman John D'Amico and his family. D'Amico is suffering from leukemia and bone cancer in a Toronto hospital and friends have gathered to comfort him.
Stem cells: Medicine's new frontier
Ever since the late 1990s, when researchers first isolated and grew human embryonic stem cells, scientists have tried to assess and harness the cells' healing potential. Unlike mature cells, which have a single, specialized function, stem cells are at an early stage of development and so have the ability to morph into different types of cells.
Cord Blood America Provides Corporate Update Discussing Bill HR-2520 and Media Coverage For Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplants
Stem cells are used today in the treatment of leukemia, breast cancer, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, Aplastic Anemia, Sickle Cell Anemia, various other cancers, blood diseases, hereditary/genetic conditions and immune system disorders. There are approximately 1.4 million new cancer cases each year. As stem cell transplants become routine, they may be used to fight lung cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, AIDS and many other genetic diseases.
Bone marrow drive to save a life
Having experienced her sister dying of lymphoma in 2003 and having had chemotherapy herself to treat her first bout of acute leukemia, Ione Lusch Bulow seems unfazed that she once again is bald.
San Luis firefighter back on the job
The San Luis firefighter was on medical leave for four months while being treated for aplastic anemia, a disease that attacks red and white blood cells.
Lab here dispenses cord blood — and hope
Stem cells from umbilical cord blood can be used as an alternative to bone marrow to treat diseases such as acute leukemia, lymphoma and aplastic anemia. The therapy provides hope for thousands of patients who have no relative or suitable volunteer to provide matched bone marrow.
She needs rare blood
Daniels is suffering from a condition called aplastic anemia, which prevents her bone marrow from producing red blood cells, said Dr. Mark Hoffman, a hematologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park.
Local foundation helps patients battle cancer
One family the ENF has helped is the Harris family. Stefon Harris is an 11-year-old boy suffering from Aplastic Anemia. According to www.aplastic-anemia.org, the condition is "not a single disease, but a group of closely related disorders characterized by the failure of the bone marrow to produce all three types of blood cells: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets
New predictor for blood transplant success
The success of blood stem cell transplants used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and aplastic anemia may soon become more predictable, thanks to a discovery made by researchers at the University of British Columbia.
Sen. Charles Schumer Lends His Support to Bill Establishing National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network
Every year several thousand U.S. children and adults develop a lethal disease like leukemia and lymphoma, aplastic anemia and certain inherited diseases of the blood and immune system that can only be cured with a marrow transplant.
‘Accordion rebel’ beats the odds
No one would have guessed that about 13 years ago, Aaron suffered from aplastic anemia, a disease that destroys bone marrow and makes it almost impossible to fight infection.
Bone-Marrow Transplant On Hold For San Luis Man
Four months ago, the 32-year-old San Luis, Ariz., firefighter was told he had aplastic anemia, a disease that attacks the body's red and white blood cells, and that the only cure was a bone-marrow transplant.
Wellses seek help from 'America's Most Wanted' to find bone-marrow donor
The Albuquerque girl underwent a bone-marrow transplant Jan. 25 at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in the hopes of eradicating the very severe aplastic anemia that has plagued her for three years.
Experts: U.S. Should Triple Cord Blood Supply
Umbilical cord blood is rich in stem cells, which have the unique ability to morph into any type of cell. The scientists said if more were available, almost 12,000 people with leukemia, lymphoma, sickle cell anemia and other diseases might be saved every year.
Occupational diseases on rise in Guangdong
Precious stone processors and container welders are vulnerable to pneumoconiosis in Guangdong while leather processors can catch blood cancer and aplastic anemia.
What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant?
A bone marrow transplant is when special cells (called stem cells) that are normally found in the bone marrow are taken out, filtered, and given back either to the same person or to another person.
Soldiers shouldn't be guinea pigs
The product manufacturer's insert that – at least in theory – accompanies every dose distributed for shooting up the troops lists the causes of these six unnecessary deaths as "adverse events without regard to causality" and include: "sudden cardiac arrest (2), myocardial infarction ... (1), aplastic anemia (1), suicide (1), and central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma (1)."
Thousands help kids with wishes
Kiernan’s mom, Nichole, explained that her son was diagnosed with aplastic anemia – a disease in which the body’s immune system destroys the bone marrow – in January 2004. The only cure is a bone marrow transplant, but the marrow of his siblings isn’t compatible, she said.
Hispanics needed for bone marrow register
Every year approximately 30,000 people in the United States are stricken with a blood-related disease, including leukemia and aplastic anemia. For many of these patients, a marrow transplant is the only cure.
Biochemists Discover Structure Of Major Piece Of Telomerase, An Enzyme That Plays Key Role In Cancer
Mutations in the RNA are associated with the inherited diseases aplastic anemia and dyskeratosis congenita, which frequently are manifested by progressive bone-marrow failure.
Student hopes story inspires marrow donors
That's why the news last March that she had aplastic anemia - a potentially fatal disease caused when one's bone marrow stops making enough blood cells - was such a shock.
Seafood tips: Fresh vs. frozen, wild vs. farmed, how to buy, how to store
The FDA must approve antibiotics used for livestock, but companies in some countries have been using unapproved or banned antibiotics for fish farming. One such antibiotic, chloramphenicol, has been tagged as a potential carcinogen and linked to aplastic anemia and reproductive system problems.
Q-C boy has rare blood disease
According to officials with the National Marrow Donor Program, or NMDP (www.marrow.org), aplastic anemia is not a single disease, but a group of closely related disorders characterized by the failure of the bone marrow to produce all three types of blood cells: red, white and platelets.
Revlimid(R) Delays Time to Disease Progression in Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma Patients
Celgene is evaluating treatments with REVLIMID for a broad range of hematology and oncology conditions, including, multiple myeloma, the malignant blood cell disorders known as myelodysplastic syndromes as well as solid tumor cancers.
Canada's blood agencies, World Champion Emilie Heymans and Diving Canada team up to promote blood donation
For Canada's diving community, the need for blood and blood products hits close to home. Last October, Tori Kennedy, a Calgary-based national junior diving team member and Olympic hopeful was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, while representing Canada at an international diving competition.
Local youth shows need for blood, marrow donors
To bring home the national need for blood, organizers have been focusing their campaign efforts on Portia Dave, a 17-year-old Southfield High School student who has aplastic anemia.
STILL FIGHTING - Eldridge tot awaits bone marrow transplant
Things appear to be looking up for Deven Strief, at least for the time being. The 2-year-old Eldridge resident, the son of Paul and Mollie Strief, continues his daily battle with Very Severe Aplastic Anemia from his hospital room in Milwaukee.
Looking to the future
Aplastic anemia occurs when a person's body stops producing new blood cells. The condition is deemed idiopathic when doctors can't determine the condition's cause — as is the case in about half of the diagnoses.
ChevronTexaco on the defensive
Steven Donziger, an attorney representing Ecuadoran residents in the suit, says the plaintiffs' tests have turned up benzene and other potentially harmful chemicals.
Shasun plans isobutyl benzene plant in Thailand
It is learnt that the idea behind the project is to secure the supply of isobutyl benzene, which is a key raw material in the production of ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory drug that Shasun manufactures.
Leukemia lawsuit drags on
The same year Sarah fell ill, the Pollocks tried to sell their house. In the process, they came across a study that found benzene leaking from the landfill. Doctors told them the benzene may have caused their daughter's cancer.
Brotherly bonds - Man's sibling provides stem cells for transplant
The elder of the two Jarvis brothers was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in 1999. This rare form of anemia is a blood disease which occurs when a body's bone marrow stops replenishing the blood stream with new cells.
New Challenge for Christopher LeBleu
Lance Corporal Christopher LeBleu is suffering from aplastic anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. There is currently no match in the National Bone Marrow Registry.
KwaZulu-Natal town has deadly secret
The 22-year-old University of Pretoria dentistry student has aplastic anaemia - a form of leukaemia - not too strange in isolation, unless you consider a number of his home town friends have died from or are living with the same sickness.
Alternative to blood donation: donate marrow
Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed with a blood-related disease, including leukemia and aplastic anemia. A marrow (stem cell) transplant is often their only chance of survival
Anemia- types and symptoms
Aplastic anemia is caused by the destruction of the bone marrow by outside factors such as chemical agents, medical treatments or physical factors. These outside factors will cause the bone marrow to slow or suppress the production of red blood cells
Things brighter for fire medic's son
The boy was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare blood disease, last November. There is a chance he will need a bone marrow transplant.
Bill promoting umbilical cord donation goes to governor
Stem cells are used to treat more than 40 life-threatening diseases, including leukemia, breast cancer, other cancers and blood disorders. Stem cell treatment using blood from umbilical cords doesn't involve human embryos.
What is Anemia?
There is a type of anemia that can be caused by exposure to toxic chemicals or radiation, which is called Aplastic Anemia.
Community draws near to support Myers in time of need
A few days before Christmas, nine year old Riley Myers was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia, a rare disease that affects about one in 500,000 children each year. Aplastic Anemia is an illness in which the bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells.
‘Our chance to help one of our own’ who has aplastic anemia
Lopez, a father of eight, has aplastic anemia, and will die if a bone marrow match isn't found. Drives to find a match for Lopez were held in San Luis and Yuma.
Biochemists report discovery of structure of major piece of telomerase; implications for cancer
Mutations in the RNA are associated with the inherited diseases aplastic anemia and dyskeratosis congenita, which frequently are manifested by progressive bone-marrow failure.
U.S. race tests transplant cyclist
For Fisher, it's been a struggle of raising awareness since losing his son, Ivan, in the early 1980s to aplastic anemia, a once-life threatening disease that occurs when bone marrow stops making blood cells resulting in infections, bleeding and anemia.
Tests indicate transplant rejection
Kailee was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia three years ago. Her story of courage and her parents' determination to find a bone-marrow donor match and a doctor to save her life have won hearts across the globe, including in China, where Kailee was adopted.
Football and Chemo
Next thing Joe knew, after the results of initial tests were in, he was scrambling for a dictionary to look up what it meant that he and Billy were being referred to an oncologist. Billy had a wicked form of cancer called aplastic anemia.
Joyce Drakeley hailed for volunteer work
Drakeley has organized so many philanthropic events that it is hard for her to keep track or remember them all. Neither she nor many others will ever forget one in particular. 12-year-old Dennis Roberts Jr., a schoolmate of her son Rob. Dennis had aplastic anemia, a rare but extremely serious disorder that results from the unexplained failure of bone marrow to produce blood cells.
Lawmaker brings home the stem-cell discussion
Eight-year-old Kailee Wells suffers from severe aplastic anemia, a rare condition in which bone marrow cannot produce blood cells. Wells' family had hoped to find a stem-cell match for the bone-marrow transplant.
State program focused on protecting children
One Iowa child has been diagnosed with aplastic anemia (the failure of bone marrow to manufacture blood cells), believed to be caused by methamphetamine chemicals, Chavez said.
China restarts EU honey exports
Cloramphenicol is an antibiotic used to control disease in shrimp, crawfish and bees, and is mostly used to treat life-threatening infections in humans when other alternatives are not available. Use of the antibiotic is limited because it is associated with a rare, but potentially life threatening side effect called idiosyncratic aplastic anemia. For the small number of people susceptible to this side effect, exposure to chloramphenicol can be fatal.
One-woman health crusade against refinery and benzene
Through word of mouth, friends in the cancer-care community, neighbors and newspaper obituaries, Krause has counted about 200 cases of cancers and eight aplastic anemia diagnoses in a 7-mile radius of the refinery. In an effort to identify more cases, she has organized a community meeting to be held Monday in the Orland Park Public Library.
Stories are different with tragic similarities
Andrea was diagnosed with a rare bone-marrow disease called aplastic anemia. She was kept in quarantine for 13 days at a children's hospital in Cincinnati.
Alternative to blood donation: donate marrow
The other two sources are PBSC donations (in which blood-forming cells are collected from a blood donation) and umbilical cord blood. According to the Bonfils Blood Center Web site, "each year, thousands of people are diagnosed with a blood-related disease, including leukemia and aplastic anemia. A marrow (stem cell) transplant is often their only chance of survival"
Questions and Answers With . . .
Maintaining adequate supplies of blood for emergency care, surgeries and medical needs is always a challenge from Thanksgiving into the new year. Collections usually drop significantly; the need does not.
Blood Emergency Declared
Apheresis is the blood donation process that enables us to collect platelets. Platelets are essential to normal blood clotting. An individuals platelets can be seriously depleted during treatment for cancer, leukemia, aplastic anemia and other diseases, and their survival depends on the generous platelet donations of healthy volunteer blood donors who sign up to participate in this very special program
Did Premcor refinery make kids sick?
For eight years, Krause and her family lived in Crestwood, four miles from the refinery. In early 2000, her son Matthew Fry, then 10, was diagnosed with leukemia. Krause's daughter Brianne, then 5, was diagnosed that same year with pilocytic astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor.
Fund to assist families of sick kids proposed
Behind the idea is the devastating illness of 9-year-old Brendan "Boomer" Hewes, who in August received a bone-marrow transplant from his sister and chemotherapy in hopes of curing his aplastic anemia.
Anemia- types and symptoms
Anemia is a disorder of the blood and is defined as decrease in hemoglobin in the blood to levels below the normal range. It may be caused by a decrease in red cell production, or blood loss.
Following bone marrow transplant, family waits
It will take at least two to six weeks before doctors know whether a bone marrow transplant will cure Kailee Wells of a life-threatening blood disease aplastic anemia.
Amgen's 4th-Quarter Profit Climbed 26% on Sales of Anemia Drug
Sales of Aranesp, used to treat anemia in cancer patients, climbed 40 percent to $705 million as Amgen took market share from Johnson & Johnson's Procrit, which had a 12 percent sales drop in the quarter.
Article on Aplastic Anemia from September 29, 2004
Aplastic anemia is a bone marrow failure syndrome characterized by peripheral pancytopenia and marrow hypoplasia. Paul Ehrlich, MD, introduced the concept of aplastic anemia in 1888 when he studied the case of a pregnant woman who died of bone marrow failure. However, it was not until 1904 that this disorder was termed aplastic anemia.
TRISENOX(R) Produces Durable Responses in Patients with Both High-Risk and Low-Risk Myelodysplasia
Preliminary data from two clinical trials of TRISENOX(R) (arsenic trioxide) injection in a total of 120 patients with myelodysplasia (MDS) were presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology. MDS is a disease in which patients can become anemic and at risk for bleeding or infection as a result of the failure to produce red blood cells, platelets or infection fighting white blood cells.
MGI Pharma Dacogen NDA Accepted for Filing by FDA
MDS is a cancer of the bone marrow that is often fatal. Some cases of MDS progress to leukemia. According to the Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation (http://aamds.org/), 20,000 to 30,000 new cases of MDS are diagnosed annually in the United States.
Foundation expresses condolences to family and friends of Congressman Robert Matsui
The Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation, information organization for families suffering from bone marrow failure diseases, expressed its deepest condolences to the family and friends of US Representative Robert Matsui, who died yesterday from complications resulting from myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
Eculizumab Trial Begins for PNH Patients
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has initiated the treatment phase in the pivotal Phase III TRIUMPH trial, to evaluate effectiveness of the investigational drug eculizumab in patients with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH).
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