Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients with multiple myeloma (a blood cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow) who also have diabetes have a reduced overall survival when compared to those without diabetes. But in a subgroup analysis, this difference in survival due to diabetes was seen in white patients but not in Black patients, […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Beginning Sunday, CSRA residents will have the choice of experiencing a blood donation like never before. Shepeard Community Blood Center is introducing new technology through the Microsoft HoloLens. The immersive digital experience is known as “mixed reality.” Donors take a journey through the virtual adventure while they give blood. MORE FROM […]
CNN — Dima Hendricks said as a Black woman with a chronic illness she never thought she would be able to fulfill her dream of competing in national beauty pageants. “I competed on a state level for over 25 years. I was able to win local and state titles, but when it was time to […]
Steven Eichberg was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2012. September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month — a month that has grown particularly meaningful to me. That’s because on June 6, 2012, I was first diagnosed with the blood cancer lymphoma. I soon learned that more than 100,000 Americans are diagnosed with lymphoma each year. Lymphoma is […]
vzphotos/iStock Editorial via Getty Images AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) announced Friday that its FDA-approved blood cancer therapy venetoclax did not reach the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 trial for patients with multiple myeloma as a late-line combination regimen. Citing data from its CANOVA study, the company said that venetoclax plus dexamethasone did not indicate a statistically […]
Companies Abbvie Inc Follow Roche Holding AG Follow Sept 29 (Reuters) – AbbVie (ABBV.N) said on Friday a late-stage study of its experimental combination therapy failed to show meaningful increase in the survival of patients with a form of blood cancer without the disease worsening. The combination of AbbVie’s Venclyxto and a steroid dexamethasone was […]
Twice a year, the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane teams up with the Lao Red Cross to organize a blood donation drive. On September 26, dozens of American and Lao colleagues showed their caring for Vientiane through the donation of this life-saving resource. Giving blood is like giving the gift of life and each bag of […]
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The family of a four-month-old baby with an aggressive and rare blood cancer have said a “huge weight” has been lifted from their shoulders after a search for a stem cell match was successful. […]
For over a decade, I have been deeply unsettled that I have been losing my grasp on Spanish. In the cold, hard light of my dwindling fluency, I have been hurtling towards becoming a “No Sabo Kid.” The relatively new term is alternately teasing, derisive and half-ironic, applying to people of Latinx heritage who either […]
The state-of-the-art Bell 407 helicopter, effectively a mobile ICU, does maintenance tests during the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday, June 29. Black Hills Life Flight is a part of AirMethods, the leading air medical provider in the United States. Darsha Dodge All four Black Hills Life Flight aircraft, located in Rapid City and […]