Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

Bone marrow biopsies are performed to check for cancer and other diseases that impact your blood. A bone marrow biopsy is performed by inserting a large needle into your bone, usually your hip bone, ...

A series of blood tests, procedures, and imaging tests can help diagnose acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Additionally, these tests can also determine its subtype and help identify the best treatment ...

During a bone marrow donation procedure, people will have a general or local anesthetic, so they will not feel any pain. After the procedure, someone may experience side effects, such as aches or ...

Julius Dix, 69, will never forget the day doctors told him he had leukemia. "I was also told that it's a terminal illness and I had about three to five years to live," he remembers. Other WRAL Top ...

Patients with a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer could soon have their chances of survival doubled as a groundbreaking trial to detect the disease earlier concludes. Scientists working on the ...

Just days after their laboratories were devastated by an Iranian missile attack, Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay of the Weizmann Institute of Science have published a landmark study that could ...

Patients undergoing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with allografts appeared to heal more quickly when injections of bone marrow aspirate were included, according to a randomized trial ...

Effi Barry, the District's former first lady, is expected to begin preparations tomorrow at John Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore to undergo a rare medical treatment in her battle against ...

A bone marrow transplant is a medical process in which faulty or damaged stem cells are replaced with healthy ones. Our bone ...

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