Bone marrow biopsies are performed to check for cancer and other diseases that impact your blood. A bone marrow biopsy is performed by inserting a large needle into your bone, usually your hip bone, ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Julius Dix, 69, will never forget the day doctors told him he had leukemia. "I was also told that it's a terminal illness and I had about three to five years to live," he remembers. Other WRAL Top ...

For the first time in coastal Karnataka at the corporate level, Yenepoya Speciality Hospital, Kodialbail, in association with ...

A private hospital in Bengaluru successfully performs day-care bone marrow transplants, reducing costs and treatment duration for select blood cancer patients.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Carlos Valencia captured the hearts of Tucson. In 2004, he lost his battle to leukemia. At the time, Valencia needed to find a full match for a bone marrow transplant. He was ...

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) in Jeddah has manufactured and introduced a post-transplant booster dose for bone marrow transplant patients, an advanced cellular ...

One call changed a life for South Bend ICU nurse Natalie Raffelock. Years after a simple cheek swab, she was matched to donate bone marrow to a patient in Houston. The donation involved five days of ...

Siblings only have a 25% chance of being a bone marrow match with each other, but a brother and sister are heading towards ...

Soccer star Mia Hamm is not only an advocate for women in sports, but for awareness around bone marrow and cord blood transplants — both of which she works for through the Mia Hamm Foundation, which ...