Effi Barry to Receive Bone Marrow Procedure
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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 leukemia.
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An Atlanta attorney will have surgery next month to remove lung tissue infected with extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, hospital officials said Thursday.
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Andrew Speaker, the tuberculosis patient who sparked an international public health scare by traveling overseas in May, will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove a diseased portion of his right lung, health officials said.
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One day in the hospital, Vladimir Atryzek overheard a nurse mention that his daughter, Molly, needed to have some bone marrow extracted. The nurse said she would be preparing Molly immediately for the potentially painful procedure.
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NEW YORK  - Patients with heart failure  experienced a marked improvement after being given an injection  of their own stem cells, investigators reported today at the  Annual Meeting of the Society for Thoracic Surgery in Tampa,  Florida.
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RICHMOND, Va.  -- The estate of NFL Hall of Fame center Mike Webster is entitled to collect up to $2 million in disability benefits for brain damage that left him unable to work following his football career.
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Doctors are following the playbook in treating Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett's severe spinal cord injury except in one notable regard: pumping icy cold saline into his veins to try to prevent further damage.
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An Italian boy has been cured of a  potentially lethal form of anemia by a new type of stem-cell  therapy, using cells from the placenta of both of his recently  born twin brothers, the health ministry said on Monday.
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The head of one of the world's largest funders of biomedical research is has said that he's set to substantially increase funding.
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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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NEW YORK -- After years of painful soul searching, Rhiannon O'Donnabhain -- a former construction engineer from a devout Irish Catholic family in Boston -- decided to surgically change his sex to female in 2001. The struggle was equally tough financially -- hormone treatments and medical procedures...
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A Chinese neurosurgeon arouses controversy for using cells from aborted foetuses to help cure patients affected by spinal and brain damage.
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Kevin Everett will be transferred Friday morning to a Houston hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
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A chef who donated his bone marrow meets the American whose life he saved almost five years earlier.
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An $18 million grant awarded to the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy will help in the treatment of bone marrow cancer and in the search for a cure, doctors say.
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Mary Travers, 67, of Peter, Paul and Mary is undergoing chemotherapy for a form of leukemia, but a full remission is expected within a few months, her publicist, Ken Sunshine, said Tuesday.
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The case of Terri Schiavo, which the Florida high court hears Tuesday, will help establish procedures in future cases.