Sharing gifts is a favorite way to sustain connection across peoples and cultures worldwide, but with bone marrow donation the gift-giving act is accompanied by uncomfortable side effects to the donor, making it a truly selfless ...
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Bone marrow transplants are procedures that infuse healthy blood stem cells into your body to replace damaged or diseased bone marrow. Just like people in need of solid organ transplants, such as hearts or kidneys, people ...
Jul 18, 2022
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A new insight into RNA regulation has taken researchers a big step forward in understanding how the body creates platelets.
Jul 5, 2022
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It is estimated that by the end of February 2022 at least 17% of the Australian adult population had recently been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to results released today from Australia's ...
Jun 20, 2022
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A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden sheds new light on the question of whether the sex and previous pregnancy of blood donors affects survival in patients who receive red blood cell transfusions. According to the ...
Jun 13, 2022
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DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My wife is African American, and we just learned that she is going to need a kidney transplant. I heard that most of the people on the waitlist are people of color, and I'm wondering whether people from ...
Apr 22, 2022
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It is new technology called "liver in a box," and it's improving outcomes for patients who receive lifesaving transplants.
Apr 20, 2022
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Queensland research is providing new hope to immunocompromised people who are vulnerable to COVID-19. Scientists from QIMR Berghofer have discovered promising evidence that T cell immunotherapy could help them to fight against ...
Mar 22, 2022
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The first analysis of blood groups data since 1993–1994 has shown that the distribution of blood groups has changed, reflecting changes in the demographic characteristics of the Australian population, according to research ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Every few seconds, someone in the U.S. finds themself in need of a blood donation. But there's not always enough donated blood to meet that need. Aid agencies began the year announcing the country was facing its worst blood ...
Feb 23, 2022
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