During a bone marrow donation procedure, people will have a general or local anesthetic, so they will not feel any pain. After the procedure, someone may experience side effects, such as aches or ...

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 ...

Some people live with conditions that stop their bone marrow from working as it should. These people often need a transplant to survive. To help, donors can give: cells from bone marrow peripheral ...

Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy are cornerstone diagnostic procedures within haematology and oncology, routinely employed to assess disorders ranging from haematological malignancies to metabolic ...

Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

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 ...

Bone marrow is the soft, fatty center of some bones in the body. It contains stem cells that become various blood and immune cells, including red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Each of ...

As Bone Marrow Stem Cell Donation and Leukaemia Awareness Month approaches, the importance of demystifying bone marrow donation has never been clearer. Murray Hewlett, CEO of Affinity Health, ...