Researchers have found a therapy that effectively kills human leukemia cells in mice using natural killer cells from umbilical cord blood. They have demonstrated an effective method for expanding the number of NK cells from a single cord blood unit while retaining the cells' anti-leukemia effects.
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The NIH is putting a hold on a five-year, $9.3 million grant to Emory, after a senator raised questions about drug industry payments to the chair of the med school’s psychiatry department. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has...
LEON, Nicaragua - More than 150 people sit in the lobby of the Oscar D. Rosales Hospital Escuela in Leon, Nicaragua, Sunday. Some walked for days for the opportunity to sit on one of the wooden benches in the rundown facility...
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The T.L.L. Temple Foundation awarded $5.8 million to The Methodist Hospital to create a much needed advanced stroke program in East Texas, where the mortality rate from stroke is the highest in Texas and up to four times the...