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Stem cell transplant boosts function slightly in Parkinson's monkeys
In a small but hopeful step for researchers working on therapies to treat Parkinson’s disease, a team in Japan has used stem cells harvested from bone marrow to restore function in monkeys with the debilitating condition. The cell transplants...
Tags: Leukemia, Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health, Loss of Motor Skills, Diseases and Illnesses
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'Next Iron Chef' recap: It's an awkward Vegas wedding
The remaining five contestants on "Next Iron Chef" took a trip to Las Vegas Sunday evening for a Vegas wedding -- of wacky ingredients, of course. For the Chairman's Challenge of fusion, host Alton Brown married ingredients for the chefs: peanut butter...
Tags: Butter, Chile, Peanut Butter, Limes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Nobel winner Joseph Murray dies; performed first successful kidney transplant
BOSTON — Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Plastic Surgery Centers, Harvard University, Immune System, Awards and Prizes
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E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize
E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,...
Tags: Leukemia, University of Washington, Boston, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, General Practitioners
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Etta James is terminally ill, live-in doctor says
Ministry of GossipEtta James is suffering from chronic leukemia and considered terminally ill, according to her doctor. Etta James is best known for songs including "At Last" and "Tell Mama."... -
Court asked to reconsider ruling on bone marrow compensation
Nation NowBone marrow transplant: The Obama administration has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow compensation to people donating bone marrow cells harvested from their bloodstreams.... -
Dr. Ernest McCulloch dies at 84; he and research partner were first to isolate and identify a stem cell
Dr. Ernest McCulloch, who with biophysicist James E. Till was the first to isolate and identify a stem cell, opening the door immediately to bone marrow transplants and eventually to what researchers believe will be a host of treatments for a broad...Tags: Research, Human Body, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Interest, Canada
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Bone marrow transplant 'gets rid of' sickle cell anemia
Researchers have for the first time performed a successful bone marrow transplant to cure sickle cell disease in adults, a feat that could expand the procedure to more of the 70,000 Americans with the disease -- and possibly some other diseases as well....Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Sickle Cell Disease, Blood, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School
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'Style Celebration' with 'Desperate Housewives' costume designer Cate Adair will offer jewelry with a heart
All The RageCate Adair, the costume designer responsible for dolling up the cast of "Desperate Houswives," is going to be dressing for a different kind of success on Saturday, with plans to bring her style savvy from Wisteria Lane to Long Beach...... -
Blowback: Pay bone-marrow donors? Give it a shot
Opinion L.A.Compensating marrow donors has the potential to save lives while at the same time doing no harm. We ought to see, under medically supervised conditions, if it will work. Our patients, quite literally, cannot afford to wait.... -
'Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority'--Federal Judge Roger Vinson on Obama healthcare law
Top of the TicketFull text and selected excerpts of Judge Roger Vinson's federal court decision declaring the new healthcare law unconstitutional.... -
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