Easing bone marrow transplants to widen their use
The old way High doses of radiation and chemotherapy wipe out a patients own bone marrow before someone elses is infused to replace it, hopefully before infection strikes.
The new way Rather than destroying the patients bone marrow, just tamp it down enough to make space for the donated marrow to squeeze in alongside [...]
Back Treatment For Elderly No Better Than Bogus One
Pain and disability were virtually the same up to six months later, whether patients had a real treatment or a fake one.
Tens of thousands of Americans each year are treated with bone cement, especially older women with osteoporosis, some of them stooped and unable to stand up straight. The treatment is so widely believed to [...]
Bone Agent Linked to Problems In Neck Surgeries
“Some of these complications are life-threatening because the neck is such a sensitive area,” said lead author Dr. Kevin Cahill of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. The study appears in Wednesdays Journal of the American Medical Association.
Smaller studies have shown BMP promotes better healing of the bone and fewer repeat surgeries to fix [...]
Mixed-race Patients Struggle to Discover Marrow Donors
But because the 28-year-old bodybuilder is one-quarter Japanese, his doctor warned him the outlook was grim. Glasgows background would make it almost impossible to find a match, which usually comes from a patients own ethnic group.
The doctor “didnt say it was slim-to-none. He didnt say it would be hard. He said zero chance,” Glasgows mother, [...]
New Artificial Ankles Offer Another Option To Bone Fusion
Now the nation is embarking on a new generation of artificial ankles designed to work more like the joint youre born with, a move specialists hope finally will offer less pain and more function to thousands who hobble although its too soon to be sure.
“These third-generation prostheses really mimic a natural ankle, which is really [...]
Bone Marrow Transplants May Cause AIDS Reduction: Berlin’s Charite Hospital
Dr. Gero Huetter said Wedneday his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.
“We waited every day for a [...]