A father is appealing for donors as his teenage son faces a life-threatening blood disorder and needs a stem cell transplant within weeks to improve his chances of survival.

Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels, quitting smoking, managing diabetes: these evidence-backed approaches remain key ways to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (SN: 11/9/15). But an ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

A new study has given leukemia researchers a powerful new dataset and collection of analytical methods—and a starting point for future research. One common treatment for leukemia is hematopoietic stem ...

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is an acquired, potentially life-threatening disorder linked to a specific gene. It can occur at any age but most often is diagnosed in young adults. PNH ...

A mouse experiment suggested familial Alzheimer's disease may be transmitted through bone marrow stem cells, but the implications of the findings were limited. The research involved transplanting bone ...

A new study found that healthy mice that received transplants from mice with Alzheimer's disease experienced quick cognitive decline Getty A new study found that Alzheimer’s could potentially be ...

Could Alzheimer’s disease be transmitted between people by common medical procedures? Not according to the medical orthodoxy, which says the condition happens due to a build-up of proteins in the ...

Cell- and animal-based models of bone formation reveal novel mechanisms involved in the cartilage-to-bone phenotype ...