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Social disadvantage is transplantable! Cancer patients’ recovery gets influenced by their cell donors’ socioeconomic status: Study
New research has found how one's position on the socioeconomic ladder can not only shape one’s phys…
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Thom Felicia, member of 'Queer Eye' cast, believes that donating bone marrow to his brother was the best thing he has ever done
Twenty years ago, I impacted the world as an original 'Queer Eye' cast member. But the most meaning…
Kelly Burch
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A 7-year-old boy needs a bone-marrow transplant. Being mixed-race makes it almost impossible to find one.
White people have significantly higher chances of finding a match than Latinos or Black people. Jax…
Elizabeth Broadbent
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GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were the only 'no' votes on a bill reauthorizing the National Marrow Donor Program
The program matches bone marrow donors with patients who have leukemia or other blood diseases. The…
Oma Seddiq
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A mom is registering Black bone marrow donors to help save her 14 year-old son
When Kimberly Crompton found out that her 14-year-old had cancer, she set out to help address the i…
Kelly Burch
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Scientists say a man with HIV is the first to reach long-term remission without a bone marrow transplant, but their peers are skeptical
A 36-year-old man was declared HIV-free after taking a cocktail of anti-retroviral drugs, but scien…
Shira Feder
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A man has become the third confirmed person to be 'cured' of HIV with a stem cell transplant
Researchers said the man's case gives "valuable insights" into potential future HIV cures.
Amber Middleton
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A woman remains free of HIV 5 years after receiving a stem cell transplant, researchers say
The woman showed undetectable HIV levels for more than 18 months after she stopped taking her HIV m…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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An American woman gets reportedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
The woman dubbed as the New York patient is also the third person in the world to be cured of HI…
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About 17 Americans die waiting for transplants each day. Scientists are trying to make more organs in 5 creative ways.
Organ shortages are causing preventable deaths and risky transplants. New experimental methods of g…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Craig Sager is hoping to return to NBA sidelines by November after receiving a rare third bone marrow transplant
"OK, third time's the charm," the 65-year-old Sager said moments after the procedure began Wednesda…
Associated Press,Cork Gaines
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My Dad Will Never Come Home Because He Sold Drugs To Pay For My Brother's Bone Marrow Transplant
How did we get here? Simply put…drugs. My dad received three life sentences and three ten-year char…
April Anderson, ACLU
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The FDA just approved the first gene editing therapy for sickle cell anemia, but it'll cost $2.2 million per person
The FDA approved the first ever gene therapies offering a "functional cure" for sickle cell anemia,…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he has multiple myeloma. The rare blood cancer is treatable but often returns after going into remission.
Steve Scalise said he has started treatment for the blood cancer and intends to return to work in W…
Rebecca Cohen
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I should be dead, but my leukemia is in remission, and there's a reason I'm still alive. I'm determined to find out why.
She was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 19. Now at 27 she believes there's a reason for her to…
Kelly Burch
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Iranians are putting their livers, corneas, and testicles up for sale on Telegram to pay off debts amid rocketing inflation and poverty
Insider reviewed Telegram listings showing poverty-stricken Iranians putting their organs up for sa…
Joshua Zitser
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Incredible medical breakthroughs of 2022, from treating blood cancer to slowing Alzheimer's disease
A vaccine for RSV and a drug that may slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease are among the gre…
Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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2 more people have been 'cured' of HIV — 1 man thanks to cancer treatment, and 1 woman who mysteriously developed natural control over the virus
Two more patients were announced functionally "cured" of HIV during AIDS 2022. One had cancer, the …
Hilary Brueck
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YouTuber Keenan Cahill, known for his celebrity lip-sync videos, has died aged 27 following complications from heart surgery
Keenan Cahill was one of the original faces on YouTube, gaining over 700,000 followers for his lip-…
Lindsay Dodgson
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I had cancer at 6 years old and was in treatment for 2 years. Now, I work in the same oncology unit that saved my life.
When I was 6, I was diagnosed with cancer and spent two years in treatment. Now I work as an oncolo…