News tagged with 'Leukemia'

Kristen LaBrie was arraigned yesterday in Superior Court for withholding medical care from Jeremy, her autistic 9-year-old son who had cancer and died in March.  LaBrie, of Salem, Mass. is facing up to 40 years in prison if convicted on all four charges including attempted murder, child endangerment, and permitting bodily injury to a disabled person.

There may have been unknown factors at work; or it may be a fluke. But the case of a 42-year-old AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia gives new hope that gene-therapy strategies may one day hold a cure for AIDS.

Scientists have decoded the entire genome of a cancer patient and found a set of mutations that might have caused the disease or aided its progression. Researchers are hopeful that the newly discovered genes will give them more ways to attack cancer in the future.

A drug developed to treat leukemia was significantly more effective than standard therapy in treating early multiple sclerosis.

The World Stem Cell Summit last week reported new progress on converting mature skin cells into stem cells that provide much needed tissues and organs for people suffering from Parkinson's and leukemia.  The problem has been with apprehension, slow approval and reluctant investors. 

Researchers have found a new chemotherapy target that could help to pave the way for more effective treatments of a deadly form of leukemia that affects children.

A new study finds that U.S. childhood cancers are more commonly found in the Northeast region of the country, affect more boys than girls, and more adolescents than younger children. Leukemia, brain tumors, and lymphoma affect 166 of every million U.S. children.