Sentences with phrase «said hematologist»
Discovering any genetic changes that protect against malaria is of great interest, says hematologist and malaria specialist Dave Roberts of the University of Oxford, who was not involved with the study.
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«This is the first strong evidence for a biological role» for Rh proteins, says hematologist Peter Agre of Johns Hopkins University.
«This [study] is extremely important,» says hematologist Alex Felice of the University of Malta and Mater Dei Hospital, who has studied the genetics of a related blood disorder.
Leukemia patients, including those who require lifesaving bone marrow transplants, have more treatment options than ever, says hematologist / oncologist Robert Collins Jr., M.D., FACP.
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That finding suggested Bcl6 inhibiting drugs may have few side effects, says Dr. Melnick, who is also a hematologist - oncologist at NewYork - Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center.
This study «provides the first fairly targeted therapeutic opportunity for these patients,» says Susan Shurin, a hematologist and acting director of the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in Bethesda, Md., noting that it paves the way for new treatments.
In fact, rare individuals missing the beta subunit genes produce only fetal hemoglobin throughout their lives and are perfectly normal, says study leader Stuart Orkin, a hematologist at Children's Hospital Boston.
«There is an unmet need to develop new therapies based on R - CHOP to try to increase the cure rate for diffuse large B - cell lymphoma,» says Patrick Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., a hematologist at Mayo Clinic and lead author.
«We have had a complete response in eight out of twelve patients,» says Brenner, who did the work in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine hematologists Catherine Bollard and Helen Heslop.
«Our findings suggest that PRMT5 is a possible prognostic factor and therapeutic target for glioblastoma, and they provide a rationale for developing agents that target PRMT5 in this deadly disease,» says co-corresponding author Robert A. Baiocchi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and a hematologist at the OSUCCC — James who is also collaborating on an Ohio State effort to develop a PMRT5 inhibitor.
«These national guidelines are directed not just to hematologists but to all medical practitioners who might encounter sickle cell disease patients, to inform them about hydroxyurea and how to best offer general medical care to them,» Dr. Buchanan said.
If so, says Grover Bagby, a hematologist who directs the Oregon Cancer Center at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, further work to decipher the protein's exact function could shed light on how to treat a much larger population of patients with leukemia, certain other forms of cancer, and aplastic anemia.
Edgren, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute and a hematologist at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, says his own research suggests the donor's sex makes no difference to the transfused patient.
«These complications can be so devastating from a patient perspective that anything that provides hope seems pretty compelling to use,» says lead author Marc Rodger, a hematologist at the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
The good news is that restoring normal levels of nitric oxide can substantially reduce red blood cell adhesion, said Dr. Tohru Ikuta, a molecular hematologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
«Our group, which includes more than 180 myeloma researchers worldwide, has updated the definition of multiple myeloma for diagnostic purposes to include validated biomarkers in addition to the current clinical symptoms used for diagnosis which include, elevated blood calcium levels, kidney failure, anemia and bone lesions,» said lead author S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D. a hematologist at Mayo Clinic.
«That's definitely a step forward,» says Geoffrey Hill, a transplant hematologist and researcher at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Australia.
«We found the IFG2 gene marks the beginning of reprogramming to hematopoietic cells,» said Dr. Masatoshi Nishizawa, a hematologist in the Yoshida lab and first author of the new study.
«There's a price to pay if you prevent too much,» says Leo Luznik, an oncologist and hematologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, «and unfortunately we don't have a thermostat that we can turn up or down» to get the T cell suppression right.
«Until now, physicians have taken a «wait and see» approach to antiviral therapies following transplantation,» says Toor, a hematologist - oncologist in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and member of the Developmental Therapeutics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center as well as professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care at the VCU School of Medicine.
When your heart pumps blood to the capillaries, the lymph fluid — the watery, nutritious fluid in the blood — needs to go outside the blood vessels into the soft tissues of the body to «feed» them, says Esther Rehmus, MD, a hematologist / oncologist at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital.