Sentences with phrase «blood diseases»

It's a rare blood disease which makes you allergic to just about any kind of processed alcohol.

Treatment options may vary, so a veterinarian is always the best resource to decide how to manage this type of blood disease.

They argue that estrogen might have potential for treating blood diseases such as leukemia and anemia.

Their goal is to make survival and recovery a reality for all of those diagnosed with blood diseases.

, who finds out he has a terminal blood disease, with little chance of survival.

Not only are we a top cancer and blood disease center, we're also a top pediatric hospital.

A bone marrow aspiration and biopsy is a common procedure used for the diagnosis and follow up treatment of many blood diseases and other conditions that affect the bone marrow.

Many people were infected with the liver - destroying blood disease, with perhaps more to come.

Contracting a rare blood disease in utero, Knowles was born in 1959 with some neurological damage.

Notably, research groups might be able to apply the approach described in this study to develop treatments for other blood diseases such as β - thalassemia, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), chronic granulomatous disease, rare disorders like Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome and Fanconi anemia, and even HIV infection.

These demons were Xiquiripat (Flying Scab) and Cuchumaquic (Gathered Blood), both of whom caused blood diseases, Ahalpuh (Pus Demon) and Aalgana (Jaundice Demon), who caused bodies to swell, Chamiabac (Bone Staff) and Chamiaholom (Skull Staff) who caused decay, Ahalmez (Sweepings Demon) and Ahaltocob (Stabbing Demon), «who hid in the unswept areas of people's houses and stabbed them to death, and Xic (Wing) and Patan (Packstrap), who caused people to die from coughing up blood.

«We're excited by the prospect that high - dose vitamin C might become a safe treatment for blood diseases caused by TET2 - deficient leukemia stem cells, most likely in combination with other targeted therapies,» says corresponding study author Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center.

CRISPR / Cas9 could be used to develop therapies for humans for genetic blood diseases such as sickle cell or thalassemia, and this paper does not change that potential.

• Published an article on blood disease testing procedures and the impact of advanced testing technology on facilitating the procedure

Hippocrates reportedly prescribed it to treat blood disease around 400 BCE, and Captain Cook and his crew consumed it to combat scurvy during long voyages.

Yates didn't think her kids would qualify because her husband had a rare blood disease called aplastic anemia and was not diagnosed with cancer.

The new board member is a pediatric psychologist who works with children who have cancer or severe blood diseases at Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

To successfully treat genetic blood diseases like SCID, however, researchers first have to show that the scissor method works on the blood cell - producing hematopoietic stem cells — required for a lasting cure — which Kohn says «may be less susceptible to gene correction, and may be more fragile to treat.»

If I do not donate, patients with serious blood diseases, like sickle cell anemia, will die.»

I was sent an email recently... admittedly by mistake... about a non-profit organization, Who is Amy, dedicated to raising public awareness and advancing research for the life - threatening and terminal blood disease amyloidosis.

Renowned for our research and therapies for blood disorders, Texas Children's Hematology Center physicians conducts state - of - the - art clinical and scientific research aimed at understanding, preventing and curing blood diseases.

The simplicity intensifies the urgency: Sometimes you get the sense that people could write only a few words, or even one word, before being taken hostage by criminals, or dying of some strange blood disease, or suffering abduction by aliens.

As for why evolution wouldn't have long ago snuffed out this genetic thorn in the side of fertility, Cherr suspects the mutation may also confer some yet - unknown advantage, the way the sickle - cell gene provides malaria protection along with the risk of a deadly blood disease.

In fact, we show this «mopping up» action is absolutely essential in preventing blood disease where too many megakaryocytes and platelets are produced.»

After Harvard, Nadeau worked as a resident specializing in pediatric blood diseases and cancer at Children's Hospital of Boston.

Because only one of the two copies of the TET2 gene in each stem cell is usually affected in TET2 - mutant blood diseases, the authors hypothesized that high doses of vitamin C, which can only be given intravenously, might reverse the effects of TET2 deficiency by turning up the action of the remaining functional gene.

«Our hypothesis is that the consequence of a damaged placenta, which for various reasons is unable to transfer bile acids to the fetus, can lead to leukemia or other blood diseases later in life, and we will continue our research to see if this hypothesis holds up,» concludes Kenichi Miharada.

To treat hereditary blood diseases, doctors could take a sample of bone marrow cells from a patient, correct the faulty gene, and then grow healthy cells in the bioreactor and transplant them back into the patient.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) is a standard therapy used to treat leukemias and other life - threatening blood diseases.

In addition to helping patients suffering from blood diseases, we are seeing advances in using stem cells to improve the condition of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS patients everyday, and Dr. Maharaj is right there at the forefront of all of it.»

Stem cell transplant (also known as bone marrow transplant or BMT) is an established treatment for many cancers and blood diseases once considered incurable.

The researchers say the special «plasticity» of the blood stem cell that allows them to be transformed to a heart cell, holds important clues about how leukemia and other blood diseases develop and how they can be controlled.

Its work is focused ostensibly on breast, colon and lung cancers, as well as leukemia and a separate blood disease — myeloid dysplastic syndrome.

But is «Funny People,» starring Adam Sandler as an Adam Sandler - like comedy superstar who is diagnosed with a possibly fatal blood disease, really such a stretch?

These may reveal the following — Low blood sugar Kidney failure Liver failure Fatty liver Systemic diseases Infectious blood diseases Viral diseases Fungal diseases

My other concern is hemangiosarcoma, a particularly nasty blood disease that killed my eight - year - old Portuguese water dog in December.

Some dogs are prone to liver shunts, and others may end up developing an autoimmune blood disease.

His life - long battle with rheumatoid arthritis and a debilitating blood disease meant that he was never able to use an easel in the conventional way.

Exceptionally well - versed in genetics and hematology, with great focus on determining blood diseases such as Thalassemia and Leukemia.

It could be used to track red blood cells to diagnose blood diseases, spread imaging agents throughout the body to visualize atherosclerotic plaques or blocked arteries, or neutralize the immune system before transplants by blocking antibodies that enter the bloodstream.

We are following the same approach for other rare and less rare blood diseases.»

4/7/2008 From Bench to Bedside in One Year: Stem Cell Research Leads to Potential New Therapy for Rare Blood Disorder A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leuk... More...

CSFs also revolutionised transplant medicine, leading to new techniques to perform bone marrow transplants for patients with blood diseases such as leukaemia.

Dr. Agarwal is currently interested in the mechanisms and therapy of genetic blood diseases, with a focus on dyskeratosis congenita.

For example, women of African or Mediterranean descent are usually tested for thalassemia or sickle cell trait or disease because they're at higher risk of these chronic blood diseases or carrying the sickle cell trait, which can be passed on to their children.

The most common is heart disease, but they also have trick knees (luxating patellas), hip dysplasia, a disease that causes paralysis of the spine, another disease similar to epilepsy called Episodic Falling, ear problems and deafness, many types of eye problems, and about half of them have a severe blood disease.