Chilled to the Marrow: Compensating Tissue & Organ Donors After Flynn v. Holder brought legal and medical experts to the law school on April 13 to survey a range of legal and ethical issues in a ...

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 ...

Some people live with conditions that stop their bone marrow from working as it should. These people often need a transplant to survive. To help, donors can give: cells from bone marrow peripheral ...

As Bone Marrow Stem Cell Donation and Leukaemia Awareness Month approaches, the importance of demystifying bone marrow donation has never been clearer. Murray Hewlett, CEO of Affinity Health, ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

Among the 10,000 people in the U.S. diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or other life-threatening blood illnesses each year, black people have the lowest chance of finding a donor for a bone marrow ...

Nurses responsible for physician assistant (PA) duties will now be permitted to perform procedures previously considered exclusive to doctors, such as bone marrow collection, skin suturing or ...